‘A TRAMP WITH REDSKINS.” 273 
As regards the quantity of paiwari which a Redman—or 
for that matter, a Redwoman or child—can take, I am 
almost afraid to speak for fear of not being helieved. It 
happened that I was once present when a Judge was 
trying a charge against a Redman of the Coast, of murder 
committed under the influence of this horrible drink. 
Whether from curiosity or from some other cause, the 
Judge insisted on himself cross-examiniug such of the 
witnesses as were likely to know as to the amount of 
paiwari which would suffice to bring an ordinary Redman 
into the initial stage of drunkenness. Everyone of these 
witnesses I knew personally ; and I was, theretore, in a 
position to estimate, perhaps better than the Judge did, 
the weight of their evidence on this point, The net 
result was an agreement that thirteen calabashes of 
paiwari were sufficient for the purpose. Nowa calabash— 
which is a vessel formed of the rind of the fruit of a 
tree—is an uncertain measure. But taking the average 
size of those used by the Redman in paiwari drinking, 
the capacity may be taken at about two pints. There- 
fore it may be assumed that twenty-six pints of paiwari 
is sufficient to begin to make an average Redman drunk. 
Unfortunately, especially at the big feasts the average 
Redman goes considerably beyond this initial stage. 
Therefore the estimate of twenty-six pints must be very 
considerably increased if one wishes to get at the aétual 
quantity of this liquor outside of which, in the Yankee 
phrase, these Redmen can put themselves. The expla- 
nation, of course, is that in large quantities it a€ts as an 
emetic. 
On the whole the effeéts of the paiwari drinking at 
Quonga were not as bad as might have been expeéted. 
