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DRINKS.
"
Or
with
horses
blood,
And
white
milk
mingled
set
their
banquets
forth,"
Orbis
Desc,
578.
And
Sidonlus,
to
the
same
effect,
*^
solitosque
criietitum
Lac
potare
Getas,
et
pocula
tingere veftas"
Parag.
ad
Avitum.
Another
strange
variety
of
drink
is
made
by
the
Peruvians.
The
ordinary
chica
is
mixed
with
the
bloody
garments
of
a
slain
warrior.
Temple
(Travels,
ii.
311).
According
to
Lobo,
the
Abyssinians
esteem
the
gall
one
of
the
most
delicious
parts
of
a
beast,
and
drink
glasses
of
it,
as
epicures
with
us'
drink
Chateau
Lajitte.
Pearce
{Adventures
in
Abyssinia,
i.
95)
says
that
they
also
drink
blood
warm
from
the
animal
with
an
extraordinary
relish.
The
Mantchoos,
the
conquerors
of
China,
prepare
a
wine
of
a
peculiar
mixture
from
the
flesh
of
lambs,
either
by
fermenting
it
reduced
to
a kind
of
paste
with
the
milk
of
their
domestic
animals,
or
by
bruising
it
to
a
pulp with
rice.
When
properly
matured,
it
is
put
into
jars
and
drawn
as
occasion
requires.
It
is
said
to
be
strong
and
nutritious,
and
the
most
voluptuous
orgies of
the
Tartars
are
the
result
of
an
intoxication
from
lamb
wine.
Abb6
Rickard,
History
of
Tonguin.
The
only
wine
in
Sumatra,
according
to
Marco
Polo,
was
derived
from
a
certain
tree,
the
sacred
wine-ire^ as
it
might
be
called,
in
comparison
with
the
sacred
water-iv^^,
afterwards
known
as
Areng
Sac-