jallapy

Updated: July 28, 2026

There was a Venetian blind in the upper part of the door, which he threw up when inside so as to admit a little air. And there you would see him, with a green shade over his eyes, seated on a stool, and pounding his pestle in a great iron mortar that looked like a howitzer, mixing some jallapy compound.

Herman Melville - White Jacket: or, the World on a Man-of-War