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doctor's awful array of afflictions attested by experiments 

 on small forms of animal life have no terrors for them ; 

 experiment and demonstrate as he may, experience is a 

 better teacher. Is there any reason why men should apply 

 to themselves the results of operations made upon creatures 

 that perish of old age while human beings are still in their 

 infancy ? ' 



' No, surely not,' responds Inglis of Indian frontier fame. 

 ' Often did I regale my weary body and brain with a pipe 

 after a hard day's sport with rifle and hound on the track 

 of the beasts of the jungle, or after a fierce bout with 

 the courageous wild boar, whose splendid fighting 

 qualities are little known out of India. It happens 

 occasionally that the huntsman finds himself far out on a 

 desolate track when 



The night-cloud has lowered 

 And the sentinel star sets her watch in the sky. 



At such times he turns with joy to his ready comforter, the 

 peace-pipe. Breathing in the fragrant breath his thoughts 

 are set free to wander at will ; old places are revisited, 

 and lost memories revived, always tinged with pleasing 

 thoughts of the things most cherished and the faces most 

 loved. At peace with himself and the world, he gazes into 

 the starlit heavens and exclaims, " Hail ! thou invigorator 

 of the weary, consoler of the sorrowful, uncomplaining, 

 faithful friend.' " 



' I too, would add my experience of the weed's healthful 

 influence on weary humanity battling with plague and 

 pestilence in tropical lands.' Here Sir Samuel Baker 

 relates how African savages had taught him the virtues of 

 the plant. 



' On that continent of dreadful night, yet so fascinating 



