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An Essay on the Inventions and Customs of Both Ancients and Moderns in the Use of Inebriating Liquor; Interspersed with Interesting Anecdotes, Illust by Samuel Morewood (Paperback / softback, 2012)

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This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1824. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... gallons of this liquor, were sent on board the British ships during their stay. Sacki is in use, and of a quality little inferior to that of Japan. In some of the neighbouring islands they make a strong drink from the remainder of their crops of corn, rice, fruit, pulse, &c., called awamuri. t On the island of Jesso, although the people are but little advanced beyond the state of hunters and fishers, they make a kind of wine resembling sacki, which is very strong. This they drink in great quantities, although they are seldom intoxicated a circumstance ascribed by Father de Angelis, a Jesuit, to their use of the todo-ovo, a kind of oil drawn from a fish of the same name, with which they season their rice, and almost all t eatables. In the Celebez islands, where the religion is chiefly Mahometan, little or distillation is carried on, although most of the oriental grains and fruits abound, and the plantain trees are of the best description. On the fruit of this tree the natives in a great measure live, and regale themselves with its inebriating juice, as also on sagwire, a very strong species of palm wine. At Manilla, one of the largest of the Philippine islands, palm trees are said to grow in great perfection, and to exhibit less than forty species. Captain Hall's Account of Loo-choo. f Mod. Univ. Hist. vol. vii. p. 993. X De Angelis apud Charlevoix. Hist. Japan. Modern Univ. Hist. vol. vii. p. 442. Such is the magnitude of some of them, that a Jesuit missionary having touched there but a few days, had, through the kindness of a friend, a place prepared for him so capacious, that under two palm leaves alone, he was enabled to say mass, and to sleep secure from the most violent rain. The leaves are shaped like a fan with ridges, and so strong, that ...

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Samuel Morewood
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Black & White Illustrations
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16/01/2012
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United States

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An Essay on the Inventions and Customs of Both Ancients and Moderns in the Use of Inebriating Liquor; Interspersed with Interesting Anecdotes, Illust by Samuel Morewood (Paperback / softback, 2012)

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