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When they choofe to give themfelves the 
trouble, they make an intoxicating liquor, 
compofed of honey and a certain root, which 
they fuffer to ferment in a proper quantity of 
water. This liquor, which is a kind of hy- 
dromel, is not their ufual beverage, nor do 
they ever keep a ftock of it by them. What- 
ever they have, they drink all at once, and 
frequently regale themfelves in this manner 
at certain periods. 
They frnoke the leaves of a plant which 
they name dagha, and not daka^ as fome au- 
thors have written. This plant is not indi- 
genous j it is the hemp of Europe. It is cul- 
tivated by fome of the planters ; and when 
they have dried the leaves, they fell them to 
the Hottentots, or exchange them for oxen. 
There are fome of the favages who prefer 
thefe leaves to tobacco; but the greater 
part of them are fond of mixing both toge- 
ther. 
They fet lefs value on the pipes brought 
from Europe than on thofe which they fa- 
bricate themfelves ; the former appear to 
them to be too fmalK For making thele 
pipes they employ the bamboo reed, baked 
earth, or a foft kind of ftone, which they 
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