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DRINKS.
Poncet
Speaks
of
booza
as
the
usual
liquor
of
the
Abyssinans,
"vastly
thick
and
very
ill
tasted,"
produced
from
a
day's
soaking
of
a
roasted
berry.
The
negroes
of
Brazil
affect
a
mixture
of
black
sugar
and
water
without
fermentation,
called
Garapa,
to
which
heat
is
sometimes
added
by
the
leaves
of
the
Acajou
tree.
Snow
melted
and
impregnated
with
the
flavour
of
smoke
from
the
fire
upon
which
It
is
placed
is
the
common
drink
of
the
Lapp.
Occasionally
he
gets
a
decoction
of
the
herb
angelica
in
milk.
The
maritime
Lapp
drinks
with
gusto
the
oil
squeezed
from
the
en-
trails
of
fish.
Women,
it
is
said,
will
take
a
pint
and
a
half
of
this
so-called
tran
at
a
meal.
But
the
favourite
drink
is
composed
of
water
and
meal
flavoured
with
a
quantity
of
tallow,
and,
if
circumstances
will
permit,
the
blood
of
the
reindeer.
Taidge
or
Tedge
or
Tedj
is
a
kind
of
honey
wine
or
hydromel,
said
by
Father
Poncet
^
to
be
a
delicious
liquor,
pure,
clarified,
and
of
the
colour
of
Spanish
white
wine.
The
process
of
its
manufacture
is
simple.
Wild
honey
is
mixed
with
water,
and
set
in
a
jar,
with
a
little
sprouted
barley,
some
biccalo
or
taddoo
bark,
and
a
few
geso
or
gtUcho
leaves.
A
superior
kind
is
made
by
adding
kuloh
berries.
This
is
called
barilla.
The
taste
of
tedj
has
been
described
as
that
of
small
beer
and musty
lemonade.
The
women
commonly
strain
it
through
their
shifts.
Besdon
is
made
like
tedj,
with
honey,
and
is
highly
valued
in
some
parts
of
Africa.
Ladakh
beer
has
the
^
Lockman's
Travels
of
the
Jesuits^
i.
218.