1892 The flowing bowl when and what to drink (1892, c1891)

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The Ketchuas, the descendants of the old Incas, know no higher enjoyment than drunkenness; each festival is celebrated by excessive drinking. Their fa- vorite beverage is " Chicha" (pronounced Tschitscha), a fermented maize decoction, cooling, opening, nutri- tious, and intoxicating, if taken in great quantities. The Indians of the Caribbean Sea prepare fermented beverages from the Mandioca root. Paiwari, Paiwa, Kassiri, are the names of just as many fermented drinks. A specific beverage of the Hottentots is the " Krii," or honey-beer; it is made of wild honey, water and the fermented decoction of the Krii-root. Likewise they understand how to prepare alcoholic liquids by infus- ing berries. Between the Senegal and the Niger everything is concentrated upon the enjoyment of alcoholic drinks. The negro fond of drinks, may it be wine, beer, or al- cohol is willing to acknowledge the supremacy of the European, and is an enemy to Mohammedanism. Vice versa, the negro that does not drink is a follower of Mohammed, whether he knows who Mohammed was or not. It may occur that a drinker, after a bacchanal, in repentance of it, shaves his hair closely, with the exception of the centre; then he is " Tub," or a con- vert, and will join the public religious services of the Mohammedans. The drinker, however, wears his full hair. If he be obliged to require the services of a bar- ber, i. e., of a piece of glass or a sharpened shell, he