One day when they had been at work, on returning to their hut, they found in it some small loaves of bread, and a jar of Chicha, which is the beverage used in this country in place of wine, made of boiled maize.
"History of the Incas"
Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
They led me into a large room with a flat roof that was being hastily prepared for me by the hanging of beautiful broideries on the walls, and sat me on a carven stool, where presently Quilla and other ladies brought me food and a kind of intoxicating drink which they called Chicha, that after so many months of water drinking I found cheering and pleasant to the taste.
"The Virgin of the Sun"
H. R. Haggard
Seeing by the numerous gourds scattered around that they were drinking Chicha, I solicited some, being anxious to taste the beverage which had been used so many centuries before by the old Incas.
"Through Five Republics on Horseback"
G. Whitfield Ray