Egypt and brings back news of coffee.

1582-83--The first printed reference to coffee appears as _chaube_
in Rauwolf's _Travels_, published in German at Frankfort and
Lauingen.

1585--Gianfraneesco Morosini, city magistrate in Constantinople,
reports to the Venetian senate the use by the Turks "of a black
water, being the infusion of a bean called _cavee_."

1587--The first authentic account of the origin of coffee is
written by the Sheik Abd-al-Kadir, in an Arabian manuscript
preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.

1592--The first printed description of the coffee plant (called
_bon_) and drink (called _caova_) appears in Prospero Alpini's work
_The Plants of Egypt_, written in Latin, and published in Venice.

1596[L]--Belli sends to the botanist de l'Ecluse "seeds used by the
Egyptians to make a liquid they call _cave_."

1598--The first printed reference to coffee in English appears as
_chaoua_ in a note of Paludanus in _Linschoten's Travels_,
translated from the Dutch, and published in London.

1599--Sir Antony Sherley, first Englishman to refer to coffee
drinking in the Orient, sails from Venice for Aleppo.

1600[L]--Pewter serving-pots appear.

1600--Iron spiders on legs, designed to sit in open fires, are used
for roasting coffee.

1600[L]--Coffee cultivation introduced into southern India at
Chickmaglur, Mysore, by a Moslem pilgrim, Baba Budan.[M]

1600-32--Mortars and pestles of wood, and of metal (iron, bronze,
and brass) come into common use in Europe for making coffee powder.

1601--The first printed reference to coffee in English, employing
the more modern form of the word, appears in W. Parry's book,
_Sherley's Travels_, as "a certain liquor which they call coffe."

1603--Captain John Smith, English adventurer, and founder of the
colony of Virginia, in his book of travels published this year,
refers to the Turks' drink, "coffa."

1610--Sir George Sandys, the poet, visits Turkey, Egypt, and
Palestine, and records that the Turks "sip a drink called _coffa_
(of the berry that it is made of) in little china dishes, as hot as
they can suffer it."

1614--Dutch traders visit Aden to examine into the possibilities of
coffee cultivation and coffee trading.

1615--Pietro Della Valle writes a lette