Note 234 — THE TALE OF THE KAZI AND THE BHANG-EATER.[224]

For the many preparations of this drug, see Herklots, Appendix, pp. lxviii.-ciii. It is impossible to say how “Indian hemp,” like opium, datura, ether and chloroform, will affect the nervous system of an untried man. I have read a dozen descriptions of the results, from the highly imaginative Monte Christo to the prose of prosaic travellers; and do not recognise that they are speaking of the same thing.