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months of the year. Its trunk, also, supplies a sap from 
which a fermented liquor is made, called “ Lakhlsy.” 
Thomson thus refers to it: — 
44 And from the palm to draw the fresh’ning wine.” 
And Waller says,— 
* 4 The sweet Palmettos a new Bacchus yield, 
With leaves as ample as the broadest shield ; 
Under the shadow of whose friendly boughs, 
They sit carousing where their liquor flows.” 
Whilst the method of procuring it, which is by break¬ 
ing off the crown and hollowing the top of the trunk 
into the shape of a basin, seems thus alluded to by 
Milton: — 
44 The savoury pulp they chew, and in the rind 
Still as they thirsted scoop the brimming stream.” 
Nor must we forget, while enumerating the benefits it 
confers, to notice the effect of a palm, or group of 
palms, when seen in the distance, on the mind of the 
weary and thirsty wanderer of the desert. Not only is 
the shelter it offers from a vertical sun anticipated with 
feelings he only can experience, but he thinks of the 
