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“...sugar or molasses running
out through holes guarded with plantain stalks into the tank
below. After this period the cask is headed up, and the sugar
is then ready for shipment. There are many different qualities
of this muscovado 'sugar, the best being the lighter kinds, while
the sugar from the bottom of the casks commands a lower
price, and is termed " foots.” This process has become ex-
tremely rare, and muscovado sugar is now usually dried in
centrifugals (see above) and shipped in bags.
THE BUM INDUSTRY. The term rum is said to be derived
from “ Saccharum.” In the old days before it received its
present designation it was styled " Kill-devil.” About the
middle of the seventeenth century it was first called " Rum-
bullion," an old Devonshire term for uproar or rumpus. An
old West Indian work says, “ The chiefe fudling they make in
the island is Rumbullion, alias, kill-devil, and this is made of
suggar-canes distilled, a hott, hellish, and terrible liquor." Rum
was defined by the compiler...”
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