Excerpt from Food Products From Afar: A Popular Account of Fruits and Other Foodstuffs From Foreign Lands The aborigine set up his tent where the mountain brook splashed into the lake or near the trail of the forest deer, the easier to obtain his daily food. The early settlements were located at fords or at the junc tion of beaten paths where folk stopped to buy and sell produce. Cities sprang up at the country cross roads, because there the farmer met the merchant that they might barter with one another. To-day our nation stands at the intersection of the world's trade-routes and we may take toll of all the earth's food-stores. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.