1829.—"A mighty solemn old man, seated in an open BUNDY (read _bandy_) (as a gig with a head that has an opening behind is called) at Madras."—_Mem. of Col. Mountain_, 2nd ed. 84. 1860.—"Bullock BANDIES, covered with cajans met us."—_Tennent's Ceylon_, ii. 146. 1862.—"At Coimbatore I bought a BANDY or country cart of the simplest construction."—_Markham's Peru and India_, 393. BANG, BHANG, s. H. _bhāng_, the dried leaves and small stalks of hemp (_i.e._ _Cannabis indica_), used to cause intoxication, either by smoking, or when eaten mixed up into a sweetmeat (see MAJOON). _Ḥashīsh_ of the Arabs is substantially the same; Birdwood says it "consists of the tender tops of the plants after flowering." [_Bhang_ is usually derived from Skt. _bhaṇga_, 'breaking,' but Burton derives both it and the Ar. _banj_ from the old Coptic _Nibanj_, "meaning a preparation of hemp; and here it is easy to recognise the Homeric _Nepenthe_." "On the other hand, not a few apply the word to the henbane (_hyoscyamus niger_) so much used in mediæval Europe. The Kámús evidently means henbane, distinguishing it from Hashísh _al haráfísh_, 'rascal's grass,' _i.e._ the herb Pantagruelion.... The use of Bhang doubtless dates from the dawn of civilisation, whose earliest social pleasures would be inebriants. Herodotus (iv. c. 75) shows the Scythians burning the seeds (leaves and capsules) in worship and becoming drunk upon the fumes, as do the S. African Bushmen of the present day."—(_Arab. Nights_, i. 65.)] 1563.—"The great Sultan Badur told Martim Affonzo de Souza, for whom he had a great liking, and to whom he told all his secrets, that when in the night he had a desire to visit Portugal, and the Brazil, and Turkey, and Arabia, and Persia, all he had to do was to eat a little BANGUE...."—_Garcia_, f. 26. 1578.—"BANGUE is a plant resembling hemp, or the Cannabis of the Latins ... the Arabs call this BANGUE '_Axis_'" (_i.e._ Ḥashīsh).—_C. Acosta_, 360-61. 1598.—"They have ... also many kinds of Drogues, as Amfion, or Opium, Camfora, BANGUE and Sandall Wood."—_Linschoten_, 19; [Hak. Soc. i. 61; also see ii. 115]. 1606.—"O mais de tẽpo estava cheo de BANGUE."—_Gouvea_, 93. 1638.—"Il se fit apporter vn petit cabinet d'or ... dont il tira deux layettes, et prit dans l'vne de l'_offion_, ou opium, et dans l'autre du BENGI, qui est vne certaine drogue ou poudre, dont ils se seruent pour s'exciter à la luxure."—_Mandelslo_, Paris, 1659, 150. 1685.—"I have two sorts of the BANGUE, which were sent from two several places of the East Indies; they both differ much from our Hemp, although they seem to differ most as to their magnitude."—_Dr. Hans Sloane to Mr. Ray_, in _Ray's Correspondence_, 1848, p. 160. 1673.—"BANG (a pleasant intoxicating Seed mixed with Milk)...."—_Fryer_, 91.