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FOOD AND BEVERAGE. 
dish used after the slaying of the animal. They 
also boil the blood with the fat, and consider the 
mixture to be agreeable. They frequently boil 
their corn, and use it as rice is used in England ; 
at other times it is ground, and boiled with milk, 
which is then called bohobay, or bread ; it is af- 
terwards cut into slices, like bread. They fre- 
quently boil beans and lickatana together, the 
former counteracting the purgative nature of the 
latter, and together producing an agreeable be- 
verage. The pumpkins they bake, after having 
cut them into pieces. 
Milk is used in three different ways :— 1. As 
it comes from the cow, which they call mashy 
louwis, or sweet milk. 2. Curdled milk. The 
milk is allowed to stand for some time in a leather 
sack, and is called mashy-abrela, or prepared 
milk, the sack in which it is curdled being called 
kookka. The third sort is called massipee-apeeree, 
from its peculiar appearance, owing to its having 
been long kept in their leather sack?;. 
The drink of the people is generally water, 
and sometimes boyalla, or a kind of beer, made 
from ground corn boiled, and allowed to stand 
until it ferments, which is considered a pleasant 
and healthy beverage. Its taste resembles that 
which probably our sour beer in England would 
have, if mixed with coarse oatmeal. Though ac- 
