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туак 1
Kayerts and Carlier agreed that the nigger had had too much palm wine.
2
But why did he invite you to the palm wine shack?
3
Don't tell my mother that you saw me at the palm wine shed.
4
After Mass on Sunday, people sit together outside the church and share fresh palm wine.
5
A medicine is made from the flowers, and from the flower-stalks palm wine is made.
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The feast lasts one week, during which food and tuak are provided.
2
If there is no tuak there can be no dancing, they said.
3
On the Upper Samba the custom still prevails of drinking tuak from human skulls.
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Later, all partake of tuak, including the children.
5
After four and twenty hours it acidulates, ferments, and becomes intoxicating, in which state it is called tuak.
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After the meal the bridegroom gives everybody tuak, and people go home the same evening unless they become drunk, which often happens.
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After planting is finished, usually in one day, they repair to the kampong, have their evening meal, and drink tuak until midnight.
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When this is allowed to ferment, it becomes what the natives call tuak- averyintoxicating beverage, of which they are very fond.