Note 439 — Chapter XV · USE OF TOBACCO, COFFEE, HEMP, OPIUM, ETC.
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El-Gabartee relates, that about a century ago, in the time of Mohammad Básha El-Yedekshee (or Yedekchee), who governed Egypt in the years of the Flight, 1156-8, it frequently happened that when a man was found with a pipe in his hand in Cairo, he was made to eat the bowl with its burning contents. This may seem incredible, but a pipe-bowl may be broken by strong teeth. The tobacco first used in the East was probably very strong.