This is what they did; they divided themselves into two teams, one team went ahead to dig a pit and cover it with grass and the other team remained around the elephant to make sure they construe it into the pit dug by their colleagues. The team that stayed back watched the elephant feeding on tree branches - this required a lot of patience and gentleness. As the elephant was progressively feeding in the bush it cut up a freshest shoot of a raffia palm tree.
When members of the team behind were passing across this palm tree they found a semi transparent and cloudy liquid in the hole produced by the broken raffia branch. They were equally thirsty and did not want to let the elephant see them in case they tried to look for water in nearby streams. So they decided to drink the semitransparent and cloudy liquid. They bent over in turns and sucked up the liquid into their dry throats. It was good to the taste they all affirmed.
They continued hunting and on the next day, they came back and explored the mysterious liquid that tasted sweet and had a kicking action on the tongue. That is how palm wine was discovered by my Mendankwe fore fathers.
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