[2021] Guérard, Polyptique de l’Abbé Irminon, Paris, ii. 335.
[2022] The fig excepted, which is much more saccharine than any.
[2023] Journ. of the Agric. and Hortic. Soc. of India, viii. 167.
[2024] Bretschneider, On Chinese Botanical Works, 1870. 5. 10. Part of the Rh-ya was written in the 12th cent. b.c.
[2025] Rawlinson’s translation, iii. (1859) book 4, chap. 74-5.
[2026] Comptes Rendus, xxviii. (1849) 195.
[2027] Hence the words assassin and assassinate. Weil, however, is of opinion that the word assassin is more probably derived from sikkin, a dagger.—Geschichte der Chalifen, iv. (1860) 101.
[2028] The miscreant who assassinated Justice Norman at Calcutta, 20 Sept. 1871, is said to have acted under the influence of hashísh. Bellew (Indus to the Tigris, 1874. 218) states that the Afghan chief who murdered Dr. Forbes in 1842, had for some days previously been more or less intoxicated with Charas or Bhang.
[2029] Quatremère, Memoires sur l’Egypte ii. (1811) 504, according to Makrisi.
[2030] Colloquios dos simples e drogas e cousas medicinaes da India, ed. 2, Lisboa, 1872, 27.