These remarks do not apply to the women and children, who sit apart in little groups of their own, and, while feasting one another in their own gentle way, attend to the shouts for more food when they are heard above the din of the revellers.
During the course of a feast of this kind an observer is struck with the hearty appetite exhibited by these primitive people. Man vies with man in holding out. Friend honors friend with plenteous bestowals of food and drink and the host strives to induce his guests to eat to their utmost capacity. Rarely does one see a Manóbo troubled with nausea but, if he is, he returns later to the feast, to finish his appointed portion. I have seen this happen on occasions.
CHAPTER IX
NARCOTIC AND STIMULATING ENJOYMENTS
DRINKS USED BY THE MANÓBOS
Intoxicating drinks are of four kinds: Sugar-palm wine,1 bá-hi toddy,2 sugarcane brew,3 and mead.4
1Tuba or sai-yan or san, the sap of the hi-di-up (Arenga saccharifera) commonly known in the Philippines as cabo negro.
2The fishtail palm (Caryota sp.). The extracted sap is called túng-gang.
3Ín-tus.