Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1885 — Collecting “Toddy” in India. [ARTICLE]

Collecting “Toddy” in India.

In (Southern Tndia they have a peculiar way of extracting juice from the cocoanut for the manufacture of an intoxicating drink called ‘‘toddv.” A cut is made at the end of the growing fruit, and to the latter a smalPtearthen pot is attached to catch the oozings. Twice a day the liquor is collected by men who climb the trees in a curious fashion. They have a sort of strap oi bamboo about seven or eight feet long,. which they fasten around “the tree and around their own bodies just above the waist. They also have a smaller strap of the same sort around their feet. They ascend the tree bv raising the strap a loot or so up the trunk, and then they pull themselves up by it, and they"climb up and down very rap-idlv-and eaeily. Helen will probably continue to be the favorite form of the name. Shoeles is more modern, though. Grant died at the age of 63. r ‘ '