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settlements, I had found the casirie to be very pleasant in 

 flavour, especially when the coarser parts had been 

 allowed to subside — and indeed its bluish-pink colour 

 prepossesses one in its favour — but as to the paiwarrie ! 

 the less said the better, at any rate about the drink made 

 on this particular occasion ! 



In one of the houses in the immediate vicinity of the 

 one assigned to us, great preparations had been, and 

 were being made, as I found on the evening of arrival, 

 for a paiwarrie-drink on the next day. Three large 

 corial-like troughs and several stone-jars and stoppered 

 cassava vessels, were filled with the liquid, and the women 

 in the house were constantly pouring out, mixing, pouring 

 back, and adding fresh liquor from the pots on the fire. 

 Only a small quantity of the cassava had been chewed, 

 and this it seems is generally the case, the boiling being 

 evidently found to be a much more expeditious way of 

 preparing the drink, though produ6live of an inferior 

 article. 



Early next day, the drinking had begun, but there was 

 no special ceremony about it. The men lay in hammocks, 

 or sat about singly, or in groups, and the women, with 

 few exceptions, without intermission, carried the drink to 

 one after another, in large calabashes which were drained 

 before being returned. The women at intervals, after 

 having made a round, themselves drained the bowl. 

 Certain men, who possibly were known to be great 

 drinkers, and were therefore more favoured on that 

 account, were much more frequently tended than the 

 others, and these were the very ones who at frequent 

 intervals gave vent to the most noisy eru6lations — the 

 sounds of which appear to be a constant accompaniment 



