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DAVID JAMES WAS BORN IN LONDON IN THE EARLY 16TH CENTURY. RUMOR HAD IT HE WAS ANNE BOLEYN’S SECOND COUSIN BORN OUT OF WEDLOCK. COMMISSIONED A NAVAL OFFICER BY KING HENRY, HE COMMANDED THE FRIGATE “PRINCESS ANNE”. DAVID’S COMMISSION WAS REMOVED AT THE SAME TIME ANNE’S HEAD WAS. INSTEAD OF SURRENDERING HIS SHIP, HE AND THE CREW DECIDED TO BECOME PIRATES AND THEY SAILED OFF TO THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA IN SEARCH OF ADVENTURE AND FORTUNE.
ON AN EXCURSION SEARCHING FOR PLEASURE, DAVID AND HIS CREW OF ELEVEN DOCKED ON THE COAST OF NORTH AFRICA AND TRAVELED INLAND TO THE CITY OF LALIBALA IN ETHIOPIA. DAVID MET THE EBONY PRINCESS ALI AND THEY FELL DEEPLY IN LOVE. UPON DISCOVERING ALI’S LOVE AFFAIR HER FATHER BANISHED THE TWO FROM HIS KINGDOM. WHEN THEY LEFT FOR THE SHIP, THEY PACKED UP SEVERAL COFFEE PLANTS--ARABICA COFFEE PLANTS.
SETTING SAIL THEY CROSSED THE ATLANTIC AND LANDED ON THE COAST OF SOUTH AMERICA. DAVID HAD HIS CREW BURN THE SHIP AND DESTROYED ALL EVIDENCE OF THEIR LANDING. TRAVELING ACROSS THE CONTINENT THE ENTIRE CREW FOUND WIVES AND SETTLED DOWN. THE CITY OF CALI WAS THEIR FINAL DESTINATION AND THEY ALL LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER. THE ARABICA PLANTS SURVIVED THE TRIP AND WERE PLANTED IN THE RICHEST GROWING SOIL IN THE WORLD. THUS PRODUCING THE RICHEST COFFEE BEANS IN THE WORLD.
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