The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-09-05
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1tarlum IN haWall, nave rcachcu Jhls
city. Special Assistant Attorney Cen
eral Charles w. Russell, who has the
matter in charge, said this afternoon
that he had received the papers from
Mr.. Breckons in this morning Is mail
''They are here added Mr.. Russell,
''but l can not yet tell you whether or
not the department will consider the
title completed. / can make no state
ment about that till / have time to go
over those papers and see what the
proof of the title to the land is.
Surgeon General Wyman, of the Pub
lie Health and Marine Hospital Ser
vice, said this afternoon he had re-
ceived no additional papers yet about
the title to the sanitaribm site. 81
have been unable to give the plans for
the sanitarium,' said DR.. Wyman,
''any consideration recently. My time
has been occupied with the yellow fe.
-er epidemic. / want to further the
study of leprosy in the islands as much
as possible and as soon as ] can find
the opportunity shall take the matter
up again.
at IHt IutEe
has been an effort to locate Gov. Car
ter, because of several letters that have
come here addressed to him. This eff
fort was unsuccessful, but the letters
will probably be forwarded to his Of
fee in Honolulu, because of his known
intention, as stated when here, to sail
from San Francisco August 20.
Neither the office of the Supervising
Architect of the Treasury, nor DR.. Wy
man has any further information re-
garding the bids for the quarantine
wharf.
IGOROT SUGAR.
Bontoc Igorot, a mountaineer people
of northern Luzon, by Albert Ernest
jerks, profusely illustrated with over
$50 half tone plates, which has just
been distributed here as part of the
work of the chronological survey, gives
an interesting description of the man
ufacture of sugar in that country. Mr..
jerks has this to say on the subject
SIN October and November the Bon
toe Igorot make sugar from cane. The
stalks are gathered, cut in lengths of
about 90 inches, tied in bundles a foot
in diameter, and stored away until the
time for expressing the juice.
"The sugar-cane crusher consists of
two, sometimes of three, vertical, solid,
hardwood cylinders set securely to re-
volve in two horizontal timbers,
which, in turn, are held in place by two
uprights. One of the cylinders projects
above the upper horizontal timber and
has fitted over it. as a key, long
double-end sweep. This main cylinder
conveys its power to the others by
means of wooden cOgs which are set
firmly in the wood and play into SOCK
cts dug from the other cylinder. Boys
commonly furnish the power used to
crush the cane, and there is much song
and sport during the hours of labor.
"Two people, usually boys, sitting
on both sides of the crusher, feed the
cane back and forth. Three or four
stalks are put through at time, and
they are run through thirty or forty
times, or until they break into pieces
of pulp not over three or four inches
in length.
''The juice runs down a slide into a
jar set in the ground beneath the
crnsher.
''The boiling is done in large shallow
iron boilers over an open fire under a
roof. l have known the Igorot to OPP
crate the crusher until midnight, and
to boil down the juice throughout the
night Sugar boiling time is known as
a-su-fal-i-wis.
"a delicious brown cake sugar Is
made, which, in some parts of the area,
is poured to cool and is preserved in
bamboo tubes, in other parts it is
cooked and preserved in fiat cakes an
inch in thickness.
"There is not much sugar made in
the area, and large part of the prod
IgOrot cares very little for sweets;
even the children frequently throw
away candy after tasting it..
Mr.. jerks also has this to say about
the manufacture of strong drink from
sugar cane by the Bontoc Igorot:
Ba-si is the Igorot name of the fer
mented beverage prepared from sugar
cane. 'Ba-si, under various names,
is found widespread throughout the
islands. The Bontoc man makes his
ba-si in December. He boils the ex-
pressed juice of the sugar cane about
six hours, at which time he puts into it
handful of vegetable ferment OBJ
tanned from a tree called 'tub-fg.
This vegetable ferment is gathered
from the tree as a flower or young
fruit; it is dried and stored in the
dwelling for future use. The brewed
liquid is poured into large ola, the
fiat bottom variety called 'fu-o-foy,'
manufactured expressly for ba-si, and
then is tightly covered over and set
away in the granary. In five days
the ferment has worked sufficiently,
and the beverage may be drunk. 1t re-
mains good about four months, for
during the fifth or sixth month it turns
very acid.
"Ba-si is manufactured by the men
alone. Tukukan and Titipan manu-
facture it to sell to other pueblos; it
is sold for about half peso per gal
Ion. 1t is drunk quite good deal
during the year, though mostly IN GER
emonial occasions. Men Frequently
carry a small amount of it with them
to the semente-as when they guard
them against the wild hogs during the
long nights. They say it helps to keep
them warm One glass of ba-si will