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p. 91, as follows: "The Bushmen and other wild tribes 

 of Southern Africa threw their Dakha (Cannabis in- 

 dica), on the fire and sat round it inhaling the intoxi- 

 cating fumes." In the "Story of the Three Sharpers," 

 (Vol. V: p. 19), the term bast appears as a prep- 

 aration of bhang: "they would also expend two Nusfs 

 (half a franc) upon Bast, which is Bhang." The 

 term flying bhang refers to the best quality, "which 

 flows fastest to the brain." For example, "Lastly she 

 brought to them coffee which they drank, but hardly 

 had it settled in their maws when the Forty Thieves 

 fell to the ground, for she had mixed up with it flying 

 Bhang, and those who had drunk thereof became like 

 dead men." History of the Lovers of Syria, (not Ala 

 Baba and the Forty Thieves). Vol. VI: p. 26. 



The most artful bhang mixture was probably "Con- 

 centrated Bhang mixed with Opium, a drachm whereof 

 would overthrow an elephant." 



"Hardly had it settled well in his stomach when his 

 head f arwent his feet and he was as though he had been 

 a year asleep." 



Levigated bhang. This term probably refers to" the 

 smoke. 



"He found King Toland asleep unattended; so he 

 crept up and made him smell and sniff levigated Bhang 

 and he became as one dead." Vol. VII: p. 31. 



"Calling up a Marid by name Zu'azi'a gave him a 

 drachm of levigated Bhang and said to him, 'Enter King 

 Gharib's tent, put the Bhang up his nostrils and bring 

 him to me.' " Vol. VII: p. 76. 



Cretan bhang. This term occurs, as follows: 



"Then the Caliph crowned a cup and put therein a 

 piece of Cretan Bhang. . . . Hardly had it settled in his 



