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and the island of Sumatra. He staid in Java eight months, and then went to Japan. 

 Of the use of Opium in Java he gives the following account : 

 Mention of use of " De Opio, ejusque Persis et Indis communi usu, diximus. Addo abusum 



Opium. 



execrabilem, qui viget inter Indos nigritas, ad efferandum animos ad homicidiorum 

 patrandorum audaciam ; dum vel vitse suss, vel injuriarum pertsesi, se devovent morti, 

 per ultionem et mortes aliorum oppetendee. Eo fine Opii deglutiunt bolum : ex quo 

 intentionis idea exasperatur, turbatur ratio, et infraenus redditur animus, adeo, ut 

 stricto pugione, instar tigridum rabidarum, excurrant in publicum, obvios quosvis, 

 sive amicos, sive inimicos, trucidaturi, donee ipsi, ab alio perforati, prosternantur. 

 Actus hie vocatur harmik, apud incolas Javse et ulterioris Orientis crebro spectabilis. 

 Vocabuli sonum ibi horret, quicunque audit ; nam qui vident homicidam, illi vocem 

 hamuk summopere exclamant : monituri inermes, ut fugiant, et vitse sua3 prospiciant : 

 dum ad extinguendam beluam accurrere debet, quisquis armatus et cordatus est. 

 Opii etiam externus usus est apud nigritas : nam eodem aqua diluto nicotianam 

 inficiunt, ut accensa caput vehementius turbet. Vidi in Java tabernas levidenses ex 

 arundine, in quibus id genus tabaci hauriendum exponebatur pra3tereuntibus. Nulla 

 per Indiam merx majori lucro divenditur a Batavis, quam afiuun, quo carere adsueti non 

 possunt, nee potiri, nisi navibus Batavorum ex Bengala et Choromandela advecto. 

 First Opium- The taberncB levidenses ex arundine here spoken of were the first Opium- 



.siae 'king shops. 



smoking shops of which we have any record. According to the statement here given, 

 Opium diluted with water was smoked with tobacco. This sort of tobacco was 

 exposed to passers-by to be smoked when, two centuries ago, the learned German 

 traveller was taking walks in Batavia to observe the customs of the Native popula- 

 tion. He uses the word haurio ; that this here means smoking, and not drinking, 

 is plain from another passage (in Amcenitates exotica, page 642), where he says the 

 black inhabitants smoke without a pipe (sine instrument*) hauriunt), by rolling tobacco 

 leaves into a whirl, which they light at the lower end and smoke from at the upper 

 by holding it with their lips and drawing. Of Opium from the Coromandel coast, 

 which then formed a part of the lading of the Batavian ships to take back to Java, 

 we now hear nothing ; but the Bengal portion of this lucrative trade finds its lineal 

 successor in the Patna Opium of the present day. 



