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[FN#123] Arab. "Mizr" or "Mizar;" vulg. Buzah; hence the medical

Lat. Buza, the Russian Buza (millet beer), our booze, the O.

Dutch "buyzen" and the German "busen." This is the old of negro

and negroid Africa, the beer of Osiris, of which dried remains

have been found in jars amongst Egyptian tombs. In Equatorial

Africa it known as Pombe; on the Upper Nile "Merissa" or "Mirisi"

and amongst the Kafirs (Caffers) "Tshuala," "Oala" or "Boyala:" I

have also heard of "Buswa"in Central Africa which may be the

origin of "Buzah." In the West it became, (Romaic ), Xythum and

cerevisia or cervisia, the humor ex hordeo, long before the days

of King Gambrinus. Central Africans drink it in immense

quantities: in Unyamwezi the standing bedsteads, covered with

bark-slabs, are all made sloping so as to drain off the liquor. A

chief lives wholly on beef and Pombe which is thick as gruel

below. Hops are unknown: the grain, mostly Holcus, is made to

germinate, then pounded, boiled and left to ferment.