All the Allibamas drink the cassine.[6] This is the leaf of a little tree which is very shady; the leaf is about the size of a farthing, but dentated on its margins. They toast these leaves as we do coffee, and drink the infusion of them with great ceremony. When this diuretic potion is prepared, the young people go to present it, in calabashes formed into cups, to the chiefs and warriors, that is, the honorables, and afterwards to the other warriors, according to their rank and degree. The same order is preserved when they present the calumet to smoke out of. Whilst you drink, they howl as loud as they can and diminish the sound gradually. When you have ceased drinking they take their breath, and when you drink again they set up their howls again. These sorts of orgies sometimes last from 6 in the morning to 2 o’clock in the afternoon. The Indians find no inconvenience from this potion, to which they attribute many virtues, and return it without any effort. The women never drink of this beverage, which is only made for the warriors. What Bossu says relating to the size of the leaves shows conclusively that it was the leaf of the tree _Ilex cassine_, for one of the leaves is just the diameter of the English farthing, a coin the size of the old half cent of American currency. His phrase “return it without any effort” is rather ambiguous, but it probably refers to the expulsion of the decoction after having drenched their stomachs with it. I do not think this was a true emesis, for there is no proof that it was an emetic. The Indians doubtless swallowed such large quantities that it was regurgitated without effort. Bossu’s only other reference to the cassine is when, in describing a council between the French and the Allibamas, he writes: The Chevalier de Emville held a speech to the assembly in his turn, and made the nation a present which the governor had sent him. The Indians gave him the great calumet of peace to smoke; all the soldiers and French inhabitants likewise smoked it, in sign of a general amnesty. Afterwards they drank the cassine, which is the potion of the white word, _i. e._, the potion of oblivion and peace. Bernard Romans, “Natural History of Florida” (1775), page 94, writes as follows: The _cassine_ is used by them (the Creeks) as a drink; they barbecue or toast the leaves and make a strong decoction of them; then men only are permitted to drink this liquor, to which they attribute many virtues. It is made so strong as to be _black_ and raise a froth. When they drink it at their assemblies in the square they call it black drink. Romans states (p. 96) that it was the business of the women to “prepare the cassine drink.” These are his only allusions to cassine.