sagwire

One of theſe leaves, or rather branches, is cut off, and the ſagwire trickles out of it by drops, which are caught in a bamboo, hung under it for that purpoſe, and when this is full, the contents are drawn off, by a tap at the bottom.

1798, Samuel Hull Wilcocke, transl., Voyages to the East-Indies; by the Late John Splinter Stavorinus, volume II, London: G.G. and J. Robinson, page 262

On the fruit of this tree the natives in a great measure live, and regale themselves with its inebriating juice, as also on sagwire, a very strong species of palm wine.

1824, Samuel Morewood, An Essay on the Inventions and Customs of both Ancients and Moderns in the use of Inebriating Liquors, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, page 139

The Australians, although unacquainted with true spirituous liquors, knew how to obtain a similar effect by chewing the twigs of the pituri bush. The Papuans of New Guinea in their intoxicating sagwire, prepared from the sap of the palm, illustrate the transition to a fluid medium for the same purpose.

1931, Julius Lippert, translated by George Peter Murdock, The Evolution of Culture, London: George Allen and Unwin, page 194