Note 235 — THE TALE OF THE KAZI AND THE BHANG-EATER.[224]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
This tranquil enjoyment is popularly called “Kayf.” See my Pilgrimage i. 13. In a coarser sense it is applied to all manners of intoxication; and the French traveller Sonnini says, “The Arabs (by which he means the Egyptians) give the name of Kayf to the voluptuous relaxation, the delicious stupor, produced by the smoking of hemp.” I have smoked it and eaten it for months without other effect than a greatly increased appetite and a little drowsiness.