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3 filled with the cores and baked thor- 

 oughly, and after cooling the juice is pressed out and collected 

 in great vats of rawhide supported on a framework of mesquite 

 branches. After a week of reeking fermentation in the open air 

 distillation is accomplished by a crude but effective apparatus in 

 which condensation is secured by the cooling effect of running 

 water brought hither in earthen and wooden conduits. So far 



of this beverage cherish the ambition to quaff it as fresh from the 



ties have been lost. Several kinds or types of this fluid a 

 of which one of the better quality is known as tequila. 



:ulture of Mexico. The 

 :enters of the rosettes he 

 :xudes by bleeding press 



