Preparations of opium; History of lettuce; Lactucarium; Narcotic effects of Lettuce; Lacticiferous plants; Dutchman’s laudanum; Syrian rue; Sterculia seeds; Beah leaves; Adulterations; Imitation opium-balls 199 CHAPTER XV.—NEPENTHES. Influence of climate on plants; Native home of hemp; Properties of hemp-seed; Distribution of hemp; Scythian hemp; Antiquity of hemp; Churrus, or hemp resin; Momeca; Gunjah; Bang, or Guaza; Majoon; Haschisch; Dawamese; Hashasheens and Assassins; Berch; Dacha; Hemp in India—in Egypt; Use of Stimulants 212 CHAPTER XVI.—GUNJA AT HOME. “At home;” Influence of hemp extract; Intoxication; Annihilation of time; Happiness; M. de Saulcey’s trial; Extraordinary delusions; History of Genii; The Sheykh’s jinnee; Mr. Lane’s cook and the efreet; The captain’s sheep; Mansour’s jinnee; Experiments; The impromptu mjah; The fosterer of superstition amongst the Arabs 230 CHAPTER XVII.—HUBBLE-BUBBLE. Dakka smoking at Ambriz; Bushmen smokers; Curious method of the Bechuanas; Egoodu of the Zulus; Snuffling hemp; Hubble-Bubble of the Delagoans; Haschishans of Constantine; Gunjah in India; Predilection of “Young America” for Bang 250 CHAPTER XVIII.—SIRI AND PINANG. The Malayan race; Areca palm; Qualities of nuts; Produce of trees; Annual production; Preparation; How used; Local names; Chinese consumption; Cinghalese instruments; Confirmed habits; Estimates of consumption; The palm in Sumatra; Substitutes in the Philippines—in Ceylon; Poetical votaries 257 CHAPTER XIX.—UNDER THE PALMS. The betel peppers; Their cultivation; _Chenai_ of Penang; Polynesian ava; Chewing cava at Tongataboo; Pipula moola; Gambir preparation; “Kutt,” or cutch; Story of an Indian “kutt” maker; Areca cutch; Statistics of the catechu and gambir trade 267 CHAPTER XX.—CHEWING THE COON. In Burmah; The Manilla doctor; Yankee adventure; Teeth colouring properties; Custom in Sumatra; Betel-stand of the Sultan of Moco-moco; Of the Sultan of Sooloo; Betel a corrective of over-doses of opium; Tagali maidens; A Tagal wedding; Making the buyos; Mahomedan abstinence; Offer to Lady Raffles 277 CHAPTER XXI.—OUR LADY OF YONGAS. Coca under the Incas; Origin of the name; Early history; The coca shrub; The harvest; Estimated production; Estimated consumption and consumers; Spanish protection; Method of using the coca; How to enjoy it; Stimulating effects; Coca tea-parties; Confirmed coqueros; The virtues of coca; The vices of coca; Power of allaying hunger; Questionable nutritive properties; Devotion of Peruvians to it; Narcotic rhododendrons 285 CHAPTER XXII.—WHITEWASH AND CLAY.