Note 4 — BOTANICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PEYOTE
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“Nearby [the leader] was placed a tray filled with peyote, which is a diabolical root [raiz diabolica] that is ground up and drunk by them so that they may not become weakened by the exhausting efforts of so long a function” (Ortega, Historia del Nayarit; in Safford, An Aztec Narcotic, 295).