Note 22 — PETER KALM’s TRAVELS. (continued 2)
Johann Reinhold Forster translation
Tea, coffee, and chocolate, which are at present universally in use here, were then22 wholly unknown. Bread and butter, and other substantial food, was what they breakfasted upon; and the above-mentioned superfluities have only been lately introduced, according to the account of the old Swede. Sugar and treacle they had in abundance, as far as he could remember; and rum formerly bore a more moderate price.