[97] The coffee of the Philippines has a fine aroma and excellent flavor, and will compare favorably with either Java or Mocha coffee. It is said to have been brought to the islands by Spanish missionaries during the latter part of the eighteenth century and its systematic cultivation to have commenced early in the nineteenth century, although it was neglected considerably and did not in consequence attain the advanced state to which it should have attained. It was first cultivated in the province of Laguna, and subsequently in other provinces, notably Batangas and Cavite, coffee becoming quite an extensive industry. Most of the coffee was produced in the provinces named and in Tayabas, in Luzón and in Misamis and the district of Cottabatto, in Mindanao, though appreciable quantities were grown in other provinces. The highest grades of the berry were grown in Batangas Province and the most inferior in Mindanao. In 1890 and for several preceding years coffee ranked fourth in exports, falling not far short of tobacco. See Census of Philippines, iv, pp. 76-78; and Official Handbook, pp. 106, 107. [98] i.e., The end of the earth. [99] Beléno: Birth, in the sense of representing that of our Lord Jesus Christ (Echegaray's Diccionario etimológico). Hence it was the representation of a manger. [100] Literally the "mass of the cock;" the mass that is said at midnight on Christmas Eve, and hence equivalent to midnight mass. [101] This mass is also called media. It is a mass sung, but without deacon and sub-deacon and the ceremonies proper to High Mass. In some American dioceses the use of incense is permitted at such masses. See Addis and Arnold's Catholic Dictionary, p. 565. [102] Or Missa solemnis, the high mass. See Addis and Arnold's Catholic Dictionary, p. 565. [103] Possibly a "house with festal decorations." [104] i.e., And beyond.