& 4£- » 22101570028 f R • HRT t v “K.HW. ‘ \ ' ‘ ^r\ 4 • ' i | % Japanese smokers. THE SEVEN SISTERS OF POPULAR HISTORY OP THE SEVEN PREVAILING NARCOTICS OF THE WORLD. BY M. C. COOIE DIRECTOR OP THE METROPOLITAN SCHOLASTIC MUSEUM. “ 1 How many are you, then ? ’ said I. ' 0 Master, we are seven.’ ” Wordsworth. To ro-create lor man, whate’er Was lost in Paradise." Southev's TnAEAni. LONDON: JAMES BLACKWOOD, PATERNOSTER ROW. [ The right of Translation is reserved.] fcF /COo ; jliHfdnrn. TO ALL LOVERS OF TOBACCO, IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD, JUVENILE AND SENILE, MASCULINE AND FEMININE AND TO ALL' ABSTAINERS, VOLUNTARY AND INVOLUNTARY— TO ALL OPIOPHA5I, AT HOME AND ABROAD, WHETHER EXPERIENCING THE PLEASURES, OR PAINS OF THE SEDUCTIVE DRUG— TO ALL HASCHISCHANS, EAST AND WEST, IN WHATEVER FORM THEY CHOOSE TO WOO THE SPIRIT OF DREAMS— TO ALL BUYEROS, MALAYAN OR CHINESE, WHETHER THEIR SIRI-BOXES ARE FULL, OR EMPTY— TO ALL COQUEROS, WHITE OR SWARTHY, FROM THE BASE TO THE SUMMIT OF THE MIGHTY CORDILLERAS— TO ALL VOTARIES OF STRAMONIUM AND HENBANE, HIGHLANDER, OR LOWLANDER— AND TO ALL SWALLOWERS OF AMANITA, EITHER IN SIBERIA OR ELSEWHERE— THESE PAGES COME GREETING WITH THE BEST WISHES OF THEIR OBEDIENT SERVANT, J3ke ^fluikat 1 Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding ofMedicine PREFATORY PREMONITION. “A certain miller was much annoyed by a goblin, who used to come and set his mill at work at night when there was no grain to be , ground, greatly to the danger of the machinery, so he desired a person to watch. This person, however, always fell asleep, but once woke up from a nap time enough to see the mill in full operation, a blazing fire, and the goblin himself, a huge hairy being, sitting by the side thereof. Pat s yer name ? ’ said the Highlander. Ourisk, said the unwelcome guest; c and what is yours ? ‘ Myself,’ was the reply ‘ ; her nain- sell/ The goblin now went quietly to sleep, and the Highlander, taking a shovel of hot coals, hung them into the hairy lap of the goblin, who was instantly in a blaze. Out ran the monster to VI PREFATORY PREMONITION. noise as he his companions, making as much on fire ?’ could. ‘ Well,’ said they, ‘ who set you c Well, then, < Myself,’ said the unlucky monster. consoling you must put it out yourself,’ was the rejoinder.” Some of my readers may arrive at the con- trespassed clusion, that I, like the Ourisk, have corn upon other people’s property, and ground my assumed, on my at their milk Let it not be make that account, inasmuch as I do not myself Cornhill assumption, that I have journeyed from those who habituate to Cathay, in search of set forth. themselves to the indulgences herein eaten of the Others have laboured, and I have Travellers numberless fruits of their labours. in some have contributed to furnish my table, for their pains. instances, without even thanks world, and I am not a This is the way of the neighbours. Let it, there- whit better than my that I make no pretensions fore, be understood, form in which these to aught beyond the presented to the numerous contributions are now wading through volume reader. The tedium of of information on these after volume in search PREFATORY PREMONITION. VII subjects has been performed for him, and com- pacted together into a pocket companion, saving, thereby, to him, a large amount of trouble, and a small amount of vexation. Private corre- spondence has furnished a portion of the infor- mation. Those who may recognise my own poaching pranks upon their domains may throw coals of fire upon my lap, and leave “Myself” to extinguish the flame. Herein the reader will find only a popular history of the most important Narcotics indulged in, and the customs connected with that indulgence. Mere statistical details have as much as possible been avoided, and those calculated to interest the more matter-of-fact reader added in a tabulated form, as an appendix. The majority of these tables have been compiled from official documents, trade circulars, or commercial returns, and care has been taken to render them correct up to the period of their dates. In this department I am largely indebted to the valuable assistance of P. L. Simmonds, Esq., F.S.S., to whom I thus tender my thanks. Those who are desirous of seeing specimens of vm PREFATORY PREMONITION. the narcotics named, in the following pages, can Botanic visit either the Museum of the Royal Gardens at Kew, the East India House Museum, South the Food Department in the gallery of the Kensington Museum, or the Industrial Museum Crystal in the gallery of the central transept of the Palace, in each of which they will meet with some will of the articles named, though in none of them are illustra- they discover all. In the former two Kensington tions of the opium manufacture, and at articles an interesting series of tobaccos, and other also connected with the indulgence therein, and with some with opium-smoking in China, together sophistications. of the tobacco substitutes and as they Hone of these collections are so complete this kind have might be. Public museums of instruct the public every facility for doing more to life : why they on the common things of every-day a fault, perhaps, do not accomplish this, is as much There are hopes, of the public as of themselves. one, at least, of however, to be entertained that in a complete and these institutions will exhibit, narcotics and their collected form, the principal substitutes. such a title for my Why I should have chosen PREFATORY PREMONITION. ix volume, and wherefore invested it with a legend, is matter of little importance. It was a fancy of my own, and if any think fit to quarrel with it, they may do so, without disturbing my peace of mind. The reply of the Ourisk to his companions, as to who set him on fire, was, “ Myself.” Parents seldom baptize their children with a name pleasing to all their friends and relatives, yet the child manages to get through the world with it, and—dies at last. M. C. C. Lambeth. —— -; CONTENTS. Chapter I. Somewhat Fabulous. page The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus ; Legend of the Seven Sisters of Sleep ; Laureates of Sleep ; Necessity of Sleep ; Pleasures of Sleep Sanctity of Sleep “ ; ; The Last Sleep of Argyle Death of Sleeping Duncan; Desdemona and Othello ; Drowsiness, fatal alike to Devotion and Instruction 1 Chapter II. The Sisters of Old. Hemp amongst the Scythians ; Intoxicating vapours of the Massa- geta: ; the Nepenthes of Homer ; the Secret of Egyptian Thebes ; The Poppy of the Ancients ; Secret Poisoning of Aratus of Sicyon ; The Acts of Locusta ; Death of Britannicus ; The Delphic Oracle; Arabian Nights; Another Nepenthes; Antony’s Retreat ; Retreat of the Ten Thousand ; Something unknown i n Chapter III.—The “ Wond’rous Weed.” Legendary origin of Tobacco ; Use in Hispaniola ; Names for Tobacco ; First Discovery by Europeans ; Introduction into France, Tuscany, Spain and Portugal, England ; Complaints against it ; Smoking taught to the Dutch ; Studenten Kneipe Tobacco in the East; Progress in England; Opposition by James I. and other monarchs in Russia, Italy, Persia, Turkey Tuscany, &c. Raleigh and ; Queen Elizabeth; Lovers of Tobacco ; The Distribution of the Tobacco Plant ; Consump- tion of Tobacco Curious ; use of the Flowers; Tobacco Poison Antidote to Arsenic ; Finance questions ; Religious prohibi- tions ; King James’a “ Counterblaste.” Chapter IV.—The Cabinet of Cloudeand. A Premier Lord ; Mayor Staines; Smoking the Plague; A First Cigar; Infant Smokers at Vizagapatam; Burtnah; Female Smokers in China; Smokers in Persia, Siam, Japan, Nicaragua on the Amazon, in New Guinea, Havana, Manilla ; The Linua of Johore; Signor Calistro’s Story; Cigars on the Orinoco In ; Chili ; The Court of Montezuma ; Panama Smoke- blowers; Rocky Mountain Indians; Salvation Yeo; Yemen Smokers ; Smoking in Austria ; Turkish Cloudland ; Defeat of . apoleon ; Curious Legend; Old Epigram; Cost of Puffing C CU aUOnS ! Smoking in New York; Cigar-makiug inThe Statea 68 38 ; , ,; xii CONTENTS. Chapter Y.—I'ipeology. page pipes Curious Omer pipes ; English ; Philosophy in a pipe ; St. Massa bowls ; howls ; Meerschaum ; Indian pipe ; Turkish Amber mouth-pieces; Origin of amber; Modern Egyptian of Nargeeleh The Gozeh ; Egoodu pipes The Shibuk ; The ; ; Delagoans; Kaffir bowls; the Zulus; Hubble-bubble of the of British Guiana; Sailors’ pipes; Bamboo pipes; Winna to Tobacco- pipes Metallic pipes ; Ode a Shell pipes ; Chinese ; Stone pipes of Rocky Mountains ; pipe • Red pipe-stone quarry ; ;” pipe-bearer Wooden pipes; The “ Calumet The Sultan’s ; in Australia • • • Modern pipeology ; Pipes Chapter VI.—Sniffing and Sneeshin. Pouncet-boxes The Eranciscan of Sterne; Etymology of Snuff; Ottomacs The “ Curupa” of the Omaguas ; The “ Niopo” of the ; Calabashes; Early Snuff-taking Snuffing in Iceland; Zulu “ ;” Mull; Mon- Apparatus; Origin of the Mull Magnificent Plugging and Strong Snuff of the Sahara ; grabin Cases ; dipping; Death in Ouidding; Snuff- taking Estimates; Snuff Snuff Scents Substitutes for Adulterated Snuff ; ; the Box ; Amber Advice Gratis; Gold Snuff-boxes ; Snuff - Lead Poison; Seeds; Chinese Flasks; Snuff-boxes; Boxes of Hard-shelled Birch-bark Boxes ; Sco ch Chinese Snuffing; A Snuff-stick; Snuffing; Varieties of Snu « Snuff-boxes; Introduction of Pseudo-philosophy of a on Sneezing ; Hardham’s 37 ; Gossip 73 Sneeze Chapter VII.—-Quid pro Quo. Tea Calcu- of Taste; Miles of Pig-tail; Tobacco Md Eccentricities Chewers Chewing Ladies of Paraguay; Tchuktehi lations- “ Bucca ;” Chewing Tobacco and Nation Quids; Taking the Dignified Proceedings in the Snuff- Quidding in Washington; Kou of the Hottentots; Angelica Root; Senate House ; The Quidding Monkey Chewing Dulse ; A Chapter VIII.—A Race of Pretenders.