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Of DrinJ{S in General. 
On the Coaft of Chili and Pern in Ame¬ 
rica , the Inhabitants make a Liquor of 
Mays , which grows there in abundance: 
they ferment it like our Ale, and drank mo¬ 
derately, it refrelheth; but the Inhabitants 
ufually follow it fo clofe, till they are mad- 
drunk. 
They make alfo a very pleafant Drink of 
the Grain Teca, dried in the Sun, thralh’d, 
and parch’d in hot Sand, then ground on 
a Iquare flat Stone, with a Roller of Stone, 
and infufed into a great quantity of water. 
The Chinefes make excellent Drink of 
Rice , which is very pleafant of tafte, and 
preferred by them before Wine. 
In the Ifle Formfa , not far from China , 
the Natives make a Drink as ftrong and 
intoxicative as Sack, out of Rice , which 
they (oak in warm water, and then beat it 
to a Pafte in a Mortar j when they chew 
Come Rice-nteal in their mouths, which they 
Ipit it into a Pot till they have got about a 
quart of Liquor,which they put to the Paft 
in Head of Leaven or Ferment: And after 
all be kneaded together till it be Dough, 
they put it into a great Earthen pot, which 
they fill up with water, and lo let it remain 
for two months 5 by which means they 
make one of the molt pleafant Liquors a 
C 4 man 
