Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the solitudes of northern Tibet/Volume 1/On Kumiz and Darasun

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
←
Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the solitudes of northern Tibet, Vol. I
by Nicholas Prejevalski, translated by Edward Delmar Morgan
Supplementary Notes by Col. Yule: On Kumiz and Darásun
→
1656142Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the solitudes of northern Tibet, Vol. I — Supplementary Notes by Col. Yule: On Kumiz and DarásunEdward Delmar MorganNicholas Prejevalski
​

KUMIZ AND DARÁSUN.
P. 54.

Col. Prejevalsky makes these two drinks identical, but he is surely wrong. Darásun is the Chinese rice-wine, or something analogous. Kovalefsky gives 'Darasoun, Chinese hoang-tsieou . . . des boisson fortes; vin ordinaire fait avec des grains; vin jaune.' William de Rubruk gives a catalogue of Mongol drinks in the following words:—'Tunc ipse fecit a nobis queri quid vellemus bibere, utrum vinum vel terracinam [darásun], hoc est cervisiam de risio, vel caracosmos [kara-kumiz] hoc est clarum lac jumenti, vel bal, hoc est medonem de melle. Istis enim quatuor potibus utuntur in hyeme' (p. 305-6).—[Y.]

Retrieved from "https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Mongolia,_the_Tangut_country,_and_the_solitudes_of_northern_Tibet/Volume_1/On_Kumiz_and_Darasun&oldid=11533136"