Careless cultivation of St. Helena Coffee in Britain

-○ May 21, 2000, when the battleship of Portuguese Captain Joao da Nova was returning northward from the Cape of good Hope and crossing the vast expanse of the South Atlantic Ocean, a sudden warning came from the sentinel that he had found land. Nova ordered to sail to this unknown island that had never been found to find out. The island is surrounded by cliffs, providing the best natural insurance, and there is only one beach to get in and out of the island. Captain Nova led his officers and men to explore the island and found that it was an uninhabited garden of Eden. The island was heavily wooded, rich in expensive ebony, and could not see poisonous insects, beasts and predators, but the cold wind was bitterly wet and far away from the land, so it was not suitable to live for a long time. Before leaving, the officers and soldiers kept a few sheep according to naval practice and planted several lemon trees so that the newcomers could have food to eat. Nova named the island St. Helena after the mother of Constantine the Great.

Over the next few hundred years, St. Helena became a supply depot for fleets on voyages to Asia, or a place for sailors to recuperate.

When St. Helena was discovered, Europeans had no idea what coffee was, and there were no coffee trees in Asia and Latin America, but the new drink kava, brewed in coffee fruit, was becoming popular in Yemen, and the Arab world was caught in a craze. Europeans still sell beer and wine alone.

Although St. Helena has been excavated, it is still alone in the South Atlantic, unheard of. Until 1732, more than 200 years later, in order to catch up with the coffee transplant fever, the British East India Company also learned from France and the Netherlands to obtain bourbon coffee trees (that is, Yemeni round beans) from the Yemeni mocha and plant them on the British island of St. Helena (which the British had taken from the Portuguese) and left it to fend for itself. 83 years later, when a great hero army of Napoleon was defeated by the British and Prussian forces at Waterloo, Britain realized that the isolated island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic was the best sea fortress to imprison Napoleon. Napoleon was put under house arrest in St. Helena on October 16, 1815, and the island's rare coffee had a chance to be known to the world.