He went on, explaining that the Dutch had stolen the seedlings, had planted them in Java and had given them to France, and the French had planted them in Martinique, and that the Portuguese had smuggled them from the French, had planted them in Brazil, and that now there was a seventy-billion-dollar market for coffee, that everyone seemed to be making money from the bean—everyone but the Yemenis, who had started the whole business in the first place.
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