Incense also known as agarbathi (or agarbatti) and joss sticks, in which an incense paste is rolled or moulded around a bamboo stick, are the main forms of incense in India. The bamboo method originated in India, and is distinct from the Nepali/Tibetan and Japanese methods of stick making without bamboo cores. Though the method is also used in the west, particularly in America, it is strongly associated with India. The basic ingredients are the bamboo stick, the paste (generally made of charcoal dust and joss/jiggit/gum/tabu powder - an adhesive made from the bark of litsea glutinosa and other trees), and
Pidgin Delaware origin, even though they were recorded in traditional Munsee territory in the greater New York area. For example, the Pidgin word "cacheus" 'crazy, drunk' was recorded from an Esopus sachem on the Hudson River in 1658; this word is from Unami "kí·wsu" 'he is drunk'. The corresponding Munsee word is the completely different "waní·sə̆məw" Similarly, the Pidgin expression "rancontyn marinit", also recorded as "rancontyn marenit" 'make peace' was recalled by David de Vries as having been used by Delawares near Lewes, Delaware in 1632, and also near Rockaway, Long Island in 1643, the latter being in Munsee territory. The Pidgin