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thirty thoufand oxen loaded with Tobacco pafs annually- 

 through one province, Coimbetore, in its way to Pondigory, 

 near Calicut, where there are immenfe magazines of that be- 

 loved drug. It is ufed in Hindoqftan in all the modes it is in 

 ILwvpe. It is commonly fmoked in Segars, or fmall twilled 

 rolls. Perfons of rank, and even the ladies in the Zenanes-, in- 

 dulge in the praifice. The apparatus is often very magnificent : 

 hookers, of the moft exquifite fillagree work. This luxury is 

 committed to the care of a particular fervant, called a Hooka- 

 badar. 



//>Wo(5/?^;r has in ufe another drug, equally pernicious in its Bangue, 

 effefts as the opium. The pretence of taking it is to exhilarate 

 the mind, to drive away care, like the Nepenthes of old, and to 

 procure pleafing fleep; but the reverfe is the confequence^ 

 drunkennefs like ideotfy, or the moil furious madnefs enfuesv 

 An individual rendered mad with an excefs of this drug, will. 

 foni£times take it into his head to run a muck, i. e. draw his 

 dagger, run ftraight forward like a mad dog, and ftab every 

 body he meets; much mifchief has been done by thefe fellows* 

 I have heard of one v/ho was transfixed by a foldier, with his 

 long lance;, he forced the whole length of the weapon through 

 his body, till he had reached the foldier, and addetl him to the 

 number of the flain. 



This drug is C3.\\ed Bangue, it is extracSled from the leaves 

 and the feeds of the Cannabis Indie a oi Linnaus, on Hemp, the 

 very fame plant v.hich has fpread itfelf from India all over 

 Europe, and is fo well known in our manufadlures of rapes, > 

 cables, and fail cloth. Acojla, p. 290, c. 54, defcribes it under 



the 



