Moti Guj was very fond of liquor—arrack for choice, though he would drink palm-tree toddy if nothing better offered.
1891 August, Rudyard Kipling, “Moti Guj–Mutineer”, in Life’s Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., […], published October 1891, page 308