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Tobacco, according to some authorities, holds the next place to salt, as the article most universally and largely used by man, we mean, of course, apart from cereals and meats. It is unquestionably the widest-used narcotic. Opium takes the second rank, and hemp the third; but the opium and hashish-eaters usually add the free smoking of tobacco to their other indulgences.
Art thou not ashamed to reach over for a dish that is distant from thee? Quoth Bersoum, 'I will eat of none but this dish. 'Eat then, rejoined the other, 'and small good may it do thee! But another man, a hashish- eater, said, 'Let him eat of it, that I may eat with him. 'O unluckiest of hashish-eaters, replied the first speaker, 'this is no meat for thee; it is eating for Amirs.
In Germany he was connected with the almost legendary, politico-religious sect which bears the name Fahrende Leute; and, again, for some time, in an immense wagon drawn by gigantic Mechlenburgers, he wandered through the mountainous Hartz forest and along the banks of the picturesque Saal; he spent most time in Paris, where, with the theosophists he summoned up spirits, and with the decadents, otherwise known as incoherents, and still otherwise as the accursed poets; in the club of hashish-eaters he had dreams and visions brought on by using narcotics.