THOUGHT IT WAS TEA

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1048, 12 August 1930, Page 14

THOUGHT IT WAS TEA

REMEMBERED GETTING DRW IN 1798 Zaro Agha. who was the in the world at the time i o se; ■ was a Turk and a detout * te€ . to u the Prophet's precepts if ism. In all the 156 > ear . s ° u or tfhe took only one dnnk "ELLi that by mistake, so he d ? c ‘ ta le The incriminating drink „i in 1798, when Zaro was - . in d and while he was » ~t . Turkish army against. .Napiw was marching from ti:tine, with the Idea of >■ Turkish Empire upside down ting as far as India to deal M Empire a decisive Mow m The terrific heat and t“® br( , ug t attacks of the Turkish cavairy “ Xapoleon’s grenadiers to a j cs the walls at the fortress :: d’Arc. on the Mediterranean ... Palestine. As the Frenc “ treated it left considerable behind, among them class Jamaica rum. £■?■ Young Zaro was one fag*#Turkish soldiers to re “ c “ tte & French camp. He found « and With some companions dr> to stave in one ot the cas the syrupy liquor. „ u" “We thought it was tea. in dryly recording the e jr all * we never tasted such oura ge, t lives. It gave us r c a ,, reTl( .juiie: ; ; we pursued the fleeing * c oa-‘ I the way down the PjW". W H The pursuit was halteo Zaro was concerned, when violently ill as aresuUo^ A is to he supposed. hal r. on this point were rather