[27] Siméon, _Dictionnaire_ 412, 436. [28] Rouhier, _Monographie_ 7. [29] _De Historia Plantarum_, 3:70 (Peyotl Xochimilcensi). Peyote, because of its abundance in certain localities, figures frequently in place names. [30] Safford, _An Aztec Narcotic_; see also other items by this author in the bibliography. [31] See the _New Century Dictionary_, “Pulque,” 4841, a word conjectured to be of Carib (Haiti or Cuba) or Spanish origin. Agave and maguey are the American aloe, sometimes called “century plant” (cf. “maguey,” 3578, “agave,” 108). “Mescal” proper, therefore, = Agave americana = maguey = American aloe = “century plant.” [32] White Wolf (Comanche) tells of Kuaheta, at the time acting as fireman in Comanche Jack’s meeting, that he once failed to return after having asked to leave the tipi. Commissioned to investigate, White Wolf found him outside “jumping like a deer” from deep peyote intoxication. Hoebel relates a similar experience in a Northern Cheyenne meeting. Tonakat, the well-known Kiowa “witch,” once forced a man to get up and dance in a meeting (_Autobiography of a Kiowa Indian_, recorded by the writer, 1936). Jonathan Koshiway (Oto) laughingly told me of a meeting in Kansas where the singer’s jaw became locked; the whole meeting was upset while they shook and fanned him with cedar incense until his jaw “came back.” This may have been an effect of the strychnine-like alkaloids in peyote, as in the case of Tom Panther (Shawnee) who became unable to talk or sing once in George Fry’s meeting: “it took me four or five minutes to say the word ‘study’,” he said. [33] Lumholtz, _Huichol Indians_, 9. [34] Parsons, _Taos Pueblo_, 63. [35] Radin, _Crashing Thunder_, 198-99.