Note 163 — ADDITIONAL DRINKS.
Reading edition
The mushroom used by the Chukchees is described by Lansdell, Through Siberia, ii., 269, as “spotted like a leopard, and surmounted by a small hood—the fly agaric, which here has the top scarlet, flecked with white points. It sells for three or four reindeer.” So powerful is the fungus that the native who eats it remains drunk for several days. Half a dozen persons may be successively intoxicated by a single mushroom, but every one in a less degree than his predecessor. Goldsmith, Chinese Philosopher.