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traders supplying only an existing need with more effective means 

 of gratification. It is scarcely necessary, in support of the first 

 assertion, to mention the different practices of rude peoples with 

 respect to intoxication, nor to point out how the vegetal world has 

 been ransacked to furnish the stimuli. Kava drinking is a good 

 Example of this. 



