Lime-eating at Paria; Among the Guajiros; White mud of the River Mackenzie; Edible clay of the Guanos and Ottomacs; Of Banco; Caouac of Western Africa; Tanaampo and ampo of Java; Edible stone of New Caledonia; Lime at Popayan; Leche de llanka of Quito; Russian stone butter; Steinbutter and bergbutter of Germany; Bergmehl of Sweden; Fossil infusoria; MM. Cloquet and Breschet’s experiments; Bucaro clay of Portugal and Spain; Pahsa of La Paz; Chaco of Chiquisaca; Red earth of Sikkim 304 CHAPTER XXIII.—PRECIOUS METALS. Wherein metals are precious; Cumulative action of mineral poisons; Use of corrosive sublimate; Arsenic eaters of Styria; in Canada; Benefits claimed for it; Arseniated tobacco of China; Effects of Arsenic; Uses of Arsenic at home 314 CHAPTER XXIV.—DATURA AND CO. Solanaceous plants and their properties; The thorn-apple of India; The Florispondio of Peru; Its superstitious uses; Indulgence therein in New Granada; Effects of thorn-apple on the Jamaica soldiers; Origin of Belladonna; Its effects as a poison; Influence on the brain; A family beneath the spell; Henbane and its effects; Jealousy caused and cured; Foxglove leaves 323 CHAPTER XXV.—THE EXILE OF SIBERIA. Kamtschatdale prospects; Poisonous fungi; The amanita-eater in Russia; Fatal effects of amanita; Description; Preparation of the fungus; Method of indulging therein; Effects produced; Its singular properties; “Sucking the monkey;” Narcotic symptoms of poisonous fungi; Narcotism of puff-ball 336 CHAPTER XXVI.—ODDS AND ENDS. Gathering the crumbs; Smoke vision of life; The Canadian herb; Legend of St. Betsy; Two Ottoman swains; Story of Abou Gallioun; Chinese designations; Smoke doth follow the fairest; The broken pipe of Saladin; Clerical authority; The Angel of Sleep and the Angel of Death 346 APPENDIX. Tables of chronology of tobacco; Of consumption of tobacco; Duties on importation of tobacco; Profits of the French Regie; Consumption of tobacco in Britain; Consumption of tobacco in the Austrian Empire; Exports from the United States in 1855; Disposition of the growth of the United States in 1840 and 1850; Exports from America in decennial periods; Analysis of tobacco; Return of opium exports; Income of East India Company from opium monopoly; Opium statistics of Great Britain; Analysis of opium; Prisoners sentenced to the House of Correction, and their opium habits; Opium consumed in the Singapore Hospital; Reports of opium smoking in China; Professor Johnston’s estimates; Synopsis of narcotics with their substitutes 357 THE SEVEN SISTERS OF SLEEP. CHAPTER I. +SOMEWHAT FABULOUS+.