1892 Drinks of the world

DRINKS.

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" 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.

made by the mixed with the Temple (Travels,

Another strange variety of drink is

The ordinary chica

Peruvians.

is

bloody garments of a slain warrior.

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 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- Lajitte. Pearce {Adventures in Abyssinia, i.