Eccentricities of Taste; Miles of Pig-tail; Tobacco and Tea Calculations; Chewing Ladies of Paraguay; Tchuktchi Chewers; Tobacco and Natron Quids; Taking the “Bucca;” Chewing Snuff; Quidding in Washington; Dignified Proceedings in the Senate House; The Kou of the Hottentots; Angelica Root; Chewing Dulse; A Quidding Monkey 94 CHAPTER VIII.—A RACE OF PRETENDERS. Adulterated Tobacco; Substitutes; Coltsfoot; Milfoil; Rhubarb; Bogbean; Sage; Mountain Tobacco; Cossena; Sumach; Bearberry; Maize Husks; Pimento; Cascarilla Bark; Polygonum; Dagga; Wild Dagga; Culen; Purphiok; Rope-smoking Chaplain; Farewell to Tobacco 104 CHAPTER IX.——“MASH ALLAH”—THE GIFT. What is Opium? Indian Cultivation; The Nushtur; Cutting the Capsules; Collecting the Juice; Use of the Refuse; Post; Boosa; Poppy Trash; Pussewah and Lewah; Different Forms of Preparation; Chandu; Its Preparation in Singapore; Singular Workman; Adulterations; Tye and Samshing; Egyptian Conserves; Cordials; Modes of taking Opium; Immense Doses; Opium in the “Fen Country;” The Crow and the Pigeon; Estimate of Opium Consumption 114 CHAPTER X.—THE GATES OF PARADISE. Paradise of the Moslems; Siamese Opium-pipes; Chinese Opium-pipe; Smoking the Drug; Its Effects; An Old Malay; Opium Experiences; Dr. Madden’s Trial; The Habit in China; Dr. Medhurst’s Report; Victims at Shanghae; Percentage of Smokers; Amongst the Shikhs; Influence on those engaged in its preparation; Chinese petition; Results in China; Opium-eating poultry 132 CHAPTER XI.—REVELS AND REVERIES. Mahomet’s Ascent into Heaven; Mental Effects of Opium; An Opium-eater’s Reverie; At the Opera; Peeping into the Stores at Hong-Kong; Opium-shops; Papan Mera; Stores in Singapore; Opium in China; Remarks of M. Abbé Huc 149 CHAPTER XII.—PANDEMONIUM. Running _amok_ in Java—in Singapore—in Batavia; Pains of opium; Piranesi’s dream; Confessions of crocodile visions; Horrible dreams; Fever phantasmagoria of “Alton Locke;” A fable; Chinese opium-smoker; Mustapha Shatoor; The Theriakis; Heu Naetse’s opinion; Experiences of a surgeon at Penang; Testimonies of Abbé Huc; Ho King Shan; Oppenheim; Dr. Madden; Dr. Oxley; Dr. Little; Opium and Insurance; Another side of the question 163 CHAPTER XIII.—OPIUM MORALS. Examination of Criminals at Singapore; Income and expenditure; Opium-Smoking and crime; Examination of transports; Drunkenness compared with opium-smoking; De Quincey’s comparison; Abuse of opium the source of poverty; The diseased poor of Singapore; Their consumption of opium; Cooly smokers; Difficulty of discarding the habit of opium-smoking; Opinion of Dr. Eatwell 181 CHAPTER XIV.—FALSE PROPHETS.