Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II

part in the dramas, was incessantly occupied with filling for each guest a

very small cup with a warm beverage distilled from millet, thus carrying out the code of Chinese civility, that the cup should never be suffered to be empty, and therefore, that however little has once been drunk it must forthwith be replenished. Of the juice of the grape the Chinese make no use, although the...