Part 20

[110] According to Kotzebue, old women chew, as in the South American _chica_—let us hope this cannot be correct—and little girls spit on it to thin the paste. Kotzebue’s _New Voyage Round the World_, vol. ii., p. 170.

[111] From the old French _Pallir_, to become vapid, lose spirit. Washy stuff.

[112] See second part of _Westminster Drollery_, 1672.

[113] General Monk’s receipt is given in the _Harleian Miscellany_, i., 524. London, 1744.

[114] “Mum’s the word,” etc.

[115] _Der Bierbrauer_, Prag., 1874.

[116] Hamilton’s _Account of Nepaul_.

[117] Pinckard’s _Notes_, p. 429.

[118] Robertson’s _History of America_, ii., 7.

[119] This is the beverage in general use. Titsingh’s _Japan_. Some writers have connected it with our “_sack_.”

[120] When cold, it is said to produce _serki_, a species of fatal colic.

[121] For this list we are indebted to the courtesy of Messrs. Gow, Wilson & Stanton, 13, Rood Lane, London, E.C.

[122] Messrs. William, James & Henry Thompson, 38, Mincing Lane London.

[123] Messrs. Gow, Wilson & Stanton.

[124] In September, 1890, a small parcel of Flowering Pekoe fetched, at public sale, 36_s._ per lb., and this price has been largely exceeded on former occasions.

“A parcel of tea from the Oriental Bank Estates Company’s Havilland Estate in Ceylon was sold at auction in Mincing Lane yesterday for £17 per lb., or over one guinea an ounce.”—_Standard_, May 6th, 1891.

“A small lot of Golden Tip Ceylon tea from the Gartmore Estate was sold by auction in Mincing Lane yesterday to the Mazawattee Ceylon Tea Company at £25 _10s._ per lb.”—_Standard_, May 8th, 1891.

[125] Messrs. Wm. Jas. and Hy. Thompson.

[126] _Joannis Petri Maffeii Bergomatis, e Societate Jesu, Historiarum Indicarum_, etc. _Florentiæ_, 1588.

[127] _Delle Cause della grandezza delle Città_, etc., del Giovanni Botero. _Milano_, ed. 1596, p. 61.

[128] _Divers Voyages et Missions du P. Alexandre de Rhodes, en la Chine, & autres Royaumes de l’Orient_, etc. _Paris_, 1653, p. 49.

[129] Catharine of Braganza, wife of Charles II.

[130] Portugal.

[131] The Works of Thomas Brown, ed. 1708, vol. iii., p. 86.

[132] His friend Tyers parodied the last phrase as “_te_ inviente die, _te_ decedente.”

[133] _Relation du voyage de la Mer du Sud, aux côtes du Chily, et du Pérou, fait pendant les années 1712, 13, 14_, par Amédée François Frezier. _Paris_, 1716, 4ᵒ.

[134] _Joyfull Newes out of the newe founde Worlde_, etc. Englished, by Jhon Frampton, _Marchaunt_, 1577, fol 101 b.

[135] Garden beds in which seeds are planted.

[136] Lima.

[137] Tschudi travelled in Peru, 1838-1842.

[138] _Travels in Peru_, by C. R. Markham, 1862, p. 237.

[139] In 1861, the cesto of Coca sold at 8 dollars in Sandia. In Huanaco it was 5 dollars the aroba of 25 lbs.

[140] Ed. 1879, p. 363.

[141] _A Description of the Coasts of North and South Guinea, etc., by John Barbot, etc. Now first printed from his original MS., 1732._

[142] Part 2, Section 5.—Mem. 1, Sub. 5.

[143] For a list of 500 Coffee Houses, see Appendix to _Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne_, by John Ashton.

[144] _Memoirs and Observations in his Travels over England_, etc.

[145] _A Brief Description of the excellent Vertues of that Sober and Wholesome Drink called Coffee._ 1674, s. sh. fol.

[146] _The Mineral Water Maker’s Manual for 1866_, from which many receipts are taken with thanks.

[147] Twaddell’s Hydrometer. From 11 to 12 lbs. sugar to the gallon should give something near this specific gravity.

[148] A sufficient quantity.

[149] About 8½ lbs. loaf sugar to the gallon of water should produce this S. G.

[150] An extract made from orange flowers.

[151] Or Butyric Ether, known as Essence of Pine-apple.

[152] Jargonelle Ether.

[153] Beware, however, of one compound ether, which gives the taste of cinnamon, and is, Ethyl Perchlorate. This mixture is _explosive_!!!

[154] Raspberries.

[155] The form of this thanksgiving is very nearly akin to that said on the occasion of eating any of the five kinds of cooked food from which the _challah_ is due.

[156] Arist., _Metaph._, i., 3.

[157] Seneca, _Nat. Quæst._, iii., 13.

[158] _Ibid._, iv., 13.

[159] Pliny, _Nat. Hist._, xxiii., 24.

[160] p. 220.

[161] Other authorities concerning this remarkable drinking fountain are Nieremberg (_Occult. Philos._, ii., 350), Clavijo, Cairasio, and Dapper.

[162] _Harper’s New Monthly Magazine_, xi., p. 499.

[163] The mushroom used by the Chukchees is described by Lansdell, _Through Siberia_, ii., 269, as “spotted like a leopard, and surmounted by a small hood—the fly agaric, which here has the top scarlet, flecked with white points. It sells for three or four reindeer.” So powerful is the fungus that the native who eats it remains drunk for several days. Half a dozen persons may be successively intoxicated by a single mushroom, but every one in a less degree than his predecessor. Goldsmith, _Chinese Philosopher_.

[164] Another description is, “Ale mixed with pepper and honey.”

[165]

Quem quicunque parum moderato gutture traxit, Haud aliter turbat quam si mera vina bibisset.

—Ovid, _Metam._, xv., 329.

[166] The Hindustani گهي.

[167] A corruption of the Turkish يوغرت _Yughurt_.

[168] Lockman’s _Travels of the Jesuits_, i., 218.

[169] P. Alex. de Rhodes, _Voyages et Missions_. P. de Marini, _On the Kingdom of Tonquin_.

[170] A word which, according to the _Glossarium Suiogothicum_, originally meant simply bread and butter. It now comprehends anchovies and other antepasts.

[171] So called probably from its being overgrown with fennel (μαραθρῶν in Strabo, 160).