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the name of Bangue. Rumpbius, v. 208, tab. Ixxvii. gives an 

 ample account of it, he fays, " it is fometimes taken in a Tuiuid 

 " form, mixed with Areca and Pinanga.'" The leaves are often 

 fmoked, mixed with tobacco ; and if the object is pleafing 

 fleep, nutmegs, and the richeft fpices, are added. It is pro- 

 perly enough called by the Malay es, Ji^^Sh or the herd of fools. 

 Alander"^ fpeaks of another fort of Bangue, prepared from the 

 leaves of the Hib'ifcus Sabdarisfa. This he fays, on the autho- 

 rity of Herman, is alfo in ufe in India. This vegetable is an 

 actual poifon ; for we know that the water in which the hemp 

 plant is foaked, to prepare it for manufacture, is moft fatal. 

 By the 33d. c. 17, Henry VIII. there is a prohibition of its being 

 foaked in any pond or running ftream, on account of its being 

 fo deftruiflive to cattle ; and if drank, when flrongly infufed, 

 a<5ts almoft inftantaneoufly mortal to the human race. 

 Datura Ferox. The Datura ferox, Acojla 288, may be added as another 

 plant ufed for the fame intoxicating purpofes. Mr. Ives fays, 

 that if the Indians are in pofTeffion of any fecret poifon, it is of 

 the feeds of this fpecies. According to Acojla, it brings on the 

 fame kind of phrenetic joy as the preceding. The droll Buttler, 

 in his Hudibras, part iii. canto i. 1. 321, mentions this plant under 

 the name of Dewtry. 



Make lechers and their punks with Dewtry, 

 Commit phantaftical advowtry. 



♦ Inebricntiaj Amxn. Acad. vi. 184. 



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