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It is sweet and rich, with a little twang, as if fermented, and people in the district call it honey-wine. Three quarters of an hour brought us to San Francisco, though we had to go down and up two large barrancas before we reached the town. It was almost sunset when we arrived. Sitting down before the town-house, we sent for the agente.
One enjoins that corpses be buried in honey it is a fortunate circumstance that his desire is not complied with, otherwise where would any honey-wine be left? Another thinks that men grow out of the earth like cresses. -Postremo, nemo aegrotus quicquam somniat Tam infandum, quod non aliquis dicat philosophus-.
Among the Masai honey-wine is brewed by a man and a woman who live in a hut set apart for them till the wine is ready for drinking. But they are strictly forbidden to have sexual intercourse with each other during this time; it is deemed essential that they should be chaste for two days before they begin to brew and for the whole of the six days that the brewing lasts.
One enjoins that corpses be buried in honey it is a fortunate circumstance that his desire is not complied with, otherwise where would any honey-wine be left? Another thinks that men grow out of the earth like cresses. -Postremo, nemo aegrotus quicquam somniat Tam infandum, quod non aliquis dicat philosophus-.
Every traveller has praised the honey-wine of the Highlands, and some have not scrupled to prefer it to champagne. It exhilarates, excites and acts as an aphrodisiac; the consequence is, that at Harar all men, pagans and sages, priests and rulers, drink it. The Caliph Umar is said to have smiled once and wept once.
A characteristic renaissance attitude toward life and art was caught by Browning in a passage of Sordello. The hero, in a momentary reaction from idealism, longs for the keener sensations arising from vice and exclaims, Leave untried Virtue, the creaming honey-wine; quick squeeze Vice, like a biting serpent, from the lees Of life!
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