See quotations; also Notes and Queries, 9 S. ix. 226.
1693. The Viceroy Commanded, That the Indian Natives should not … consume any Mays in the making of a Drink common among them, called Pulche.—Lond. Gaz., No. 2848. (N.E.D.)
1796. Pulque is the usual wine or beer of the Mexicans, made of the fermented juice of the Maguei.—Morse, ‘American Geography,’ i. 729 (id.).
1847. The fermented liquor, called pulque, is an excellent beer, though somewhat intoxicating. The muscal, or maguey brandy, is distilled from the pulque, by a process similar to that of distilling apple whiskey with us; and it has considerable resemblance to that liquor.—‘Life of Benjamin Lundy,’ p. 71 (Phila.). (Italics in the original.)
1910. See SPANG.
