[162] Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, xi., p. 499.
[163] The mushroom used by the Chukchees is described by Lansdell, Through Siberia, ii., 269, as “spotted like a leopard, and surmounted by a small hood—the fly agaric, which here has the top scarlet, flecked with white points. It sells for three or four reindeer.” So powerful is the fungus that the native who eats it remains drunk for several days. Half a dozen persons may be successively intoxicated by a single mushroom, but every one in a less degree than his predecessor. Goldsmith, Chinese Philosopher.
[164] Another description is, “Ale mixed with pepper and honey.”
Quem quicunque parum moderato gutture traxit,
Haud aliter turbat quam si mera vina bibisset.
—Ovid, Metam., xv., 329.
[166] The Hindustani گهي.
[167] A corruption of the Turkish يوغرت Yughurt.
[168] Lockman’s Travels of the Jesuits, i., 218.