According to E. L. Peay, among the Maya honey was often associated with wine. The Mayas were proficient honey bee keepers, using honey bases for their wines, and making their wines "pleasant to their taste" (Alma 55:13). It should be noted that honey had been used since the days of Lehi. After traveling for eight years, Lehi's group reached a location by the seashore which they named Bountiful, "because of its much fruit and wild honey" (1 Nephi 17:5). Later, while on the ship crossing the sea, the older brothers Laman and Lemuel and their wives began to make themselves merry (1 Nephi 18:9-15). Perhaps part of this merriment involved fermented drinks from this fruit and honey ("wine"). [E. L. Peay, The Lands of Zarahemla: Nephi's Land of Promise, pp. 46-47]