they prepared it with peculiar ceremonies and served it to all who attended the celebration in the square. The singing of the yahola, or black-drink note, was, and is still, a peculiar rite connected with the drinking of this favorite liquid. Narvaez writes (1536) of the Indians on the coast of Texas: They have a sort of drink made of the leaves of a tree like the mulberry tree, which they boil very well and work it up into a froth, and so drink it as hot as ever they can suffer it to come into their mouths. All the while this is over the fire the vessel must be close shut; and if by chance it should be uncovered, and a woman should come by in the meantime, they would drink none of it, but fling it all away. Likewise, while they stand cooling it and pouring it out to drink, a woman must not stir or move, or they would throw it all to the ground, or spew it up again if they had drunk any; she herself would incur the bastinado. All this time they continue bawling out aloud, “Who will drink?” and when the women begin to hear these exclamations, then it is that they settle themselves in their postures, and were they sitting or standing, though it were a tiptoe, or one leg up and the other down, they must continue so till the men have cooled their liquor and made it fit to drink. The reason of this is every whit as foolish and unreasonable as the custom itself, for they say should not the women stand still when they hear their voice some bad thing would be conveyed into the liquor, which they say would make them die; and if such a generation of asses were all poisoned it were no great loss to the world. In the narrative of René Laudonnière (1564) he says of his expedition from Fort Caroline, at the mouth of the river of May (St. Johns), Florida: I departed with fifty of my best soldiers in two barks, and arrived in the dominion of Utina, distant from our fort about 40 or 50 leagues (125 miles); and going ashore we drew near his village, situated 6 leagues from the river, where we took him prisoner. They (his tribe) therefore brought me fish in their little boats, and their meal of mast (maize); they also made their drink which they call cassine, which they sent to Utina and me. The map in Le Moine’s Narrative shows the residence of Utina to be west of the river St. Johns, and in such a position that it is possible that Laudonnière went up the St. Johns to the Ochlawaha River, then up that river to Orange Creek and to Orange Lake, which is of crescent shape, just as it is figured on Le Moine’s map. The cassine which Utina’s men sent to him must have been obtained from the east or west coast, unless it was the leaves of the _Ilex dahoon_, which grows in the interior of Florida. Le Moine, in his “Narrative,” illustrated with drawings and written in 1504, has the following mention of cassine: