1892 Drinks of the world

DRIXKS.

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guardians, known as ale-conners, who had the right of entering all public-houses and tasting their ales. Only the most important beers of different countries are given in the following list, arranged alphabetically for convenience of reference :— Captain Clapperton {Expedition to Africa, i., 133, 187) found at Wow-wow, the metropolis of Borghoo, a kind of ale bearing the name of pitto, obtained from the same grain as that used for the same purpose in Dahomey, and by a process nearly similar to the brewing of beer in England from malt, only that no hops were added, a defect which prevented it keeping for any length of time. The people of the countries from the Gambia to the Senegal use a kind of beer called balLo. At a village called Wezo there is a beer called otee, a. sort of ale made from millet, of a very enlivening nature. Another sort of beer, called ^^ear, is found at Ragada. At Whidah an excellent beer is made from two sorts of maize. The Jews at Taffilet use beer of their own brewing. Isaacs {Travels in Africa, ii. 319) says that the Zoola nation, between Delagoa Bay and the Bay of Natal, has a description of beer, with which the natives are wont to get drunk. This beer is made from a seed called loopoco, some- thing in size and colour like rape. It has powerful fermenting properties, and forms a beverage of a light brown hue, potent and stimulating. In Sofala a beer Africa.

is made from rice and millet ; be found a drink of many names

also in Abyssinia is to

tallah, or selleh, or