Kill-devil

The chief fuddling they make in the island is Rumbullion alias Kill-Divil, and this is made of sugar canes distilled, a hot hellish, and terrible liquor.

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KILL DEVIL. New ſtill-burnt rum.

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Without half the indulgences British troops have, were these poor miserable wretches left to their fate, not an allowance of spirits to render their water palatable, except new rum, which is not improperly termed "kill devil."

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Monday 24, I went aboard the Fellowship of 170 tons, a Flemish bottom: several of my friends came to bid me farewell, among them the rest Capt. Thomas Wannerton, who drank to me a pint of kill-devil alias rhum at a draught; at 6 o'clock in the morning, we set sail for Massachusetts.

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