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Updated: May 1, 2025
These poles were the flower stalks of the great American aloe, or maguey-plant the only thing resembling wood that grew near. Over these was laid a thick layer of Puna grass, which was tied with strong ropes of the same material, to keep it from flying off when the wind blew violently, which it there often does.
"Oh," she laughed, to my great relief, "but this mescal is something quite different. The Mexican drink mescal is made from the maguey-plant and is a frightfully horrid thing that sends the peon out of his senses and makes him violent. Mescal as I mean it is a little shrub, a god, a cult, a religion." "Yes," assented Kennedy; "discovered by those same Kiowa Indians, was it not?"
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