Chapter PULTUN to PUNCH of P by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

the Physicians name their Composition Diapente; or from four things, Diatessaron.”—Fryer, 157.

1674.—“Palapuntz, a kind of Indian drink, consisting of Aqua-vitae, Rose-water, juyce of Citrons and Sugar.”—Glossographia, &c., by T. E.

[1675.—“Drank part of their boules of Punch (a liquor very strange to me).”—H. Teonge, Diary, June 1.]

1682.—“Some (of the Chinese in Batavia) also sell Sugar-beer, as well as cooked dishes and Sury (see SURA), arak or Indian brandy; wherefrom they make Mussak and Follepons, as the Englishmen call it.”—Nieuhoff, Zee en Lant-Reize, ii. 217.

1683.—“… Our owne people and mariners who are now very numerous, and insolent among us, and (by reason of Punch) every day give disturbance.”—Hedges, Diary, Oct. 8; [Hak. Soc. i. 123].

1688.—“… the soldiers as merry as Punch could make them.”—In Wheeler, i. 187.

1689.—“Bengal (Arak) is much stronger spirit than that of Goa, tho’ both are made use of by the Europeans in making Punch.”—Ovington, 237-8.

1694.—“If any man comes into a victualling house to drink punch, he may demand one quart good Goa arak, half a pound of sugar, and half a pint of good lime water, and make his own punch. …”—Order Book of Bombay Govt., quoted by Anderson, p. 281.

1705.—“Un bon repas chez les Anglais ne se fait point sans bonne ponse qu’on sert dans un grand vase.”—Sieur Luillier, Voy. aux Grandes Indes, 29.

1771.—“Hence every one (at Madras) has it in his Power to eat well, tho’ he can afford no other Liquor at Meals than Punch, which is the common Drink among Europeans, and here made in the greatest Perfection.”—Lockyer, 22.

1724.—“Next to Drams, no Liquor deserves more to be stigmatised and banished from the Repasts of the Tender, Valetudinary, and Studious, than Punch.”—G. Cheyne, An Essay on Health and Longevity, p. 58.

1791.—“Dès que l’Anglais eut cessé de manger, le Paria … fit un signe à sa femme, qui apporta … une grande calebasse pleine de punch, qu’elle avoit preparé, pendant le souper, avec de l’eau, et du jus de citron, et du jus de canne de sucre. …”—B. de St. Pierre, Chaumière Indienne, 56.

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