170 OF THE " TEDGE." 



in the course of three or four days. Experience 

 has taught me these important facts, but as future 

 travellers cannot be supposed to have my note 

 books with them, I have recorded these hints for 

 their benefit. 



After the reaction following the hot stage of 

 the fever, I felt quite certain a horn or two of 

 " tedge" honey wine would not do me any injury, 

 so sent Walderheros just before sunset to endeavour 

 to procure me some. I also gave Musculo a salt 

 piece to purchase fowls and ale, as my contribution 

 towards the entertainment, Walderheros and myself 

 were receiving in the house. 



My servant soon breasted the high hill, and 

 fortunately was just in time to find a person in 

 authority, who, immediately he was shown my 

 durgo order, procured a large bullock's horn full of 

 the sweet wine. The manufacture of tedge or 

 honey wine is a royal monopoly, and is not publicly 

 sold ; of course there is a kind of conventional 

 license, not exactly smuggling, by which, for 

 double or treble its value, this beverage may be 

 obtained. Even then the purchased article is 

 probably the rations that have been preserved by 

 some carefully disposed guest of the monarch, who, 

 pouring his daily allowance of a bullock's hornfull 

 into a large jar, collects a stock for a day of 

 rejoicing or for private sale. The process of brewing 

 tedge is simple enough ; cold water being poured 

 over a few small drinking hornsfull of honey placed 

 in a jar, is well stirred up ; to this is then added 



