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SOME eat a sort of opium called benghilik, or henebane, which renders them more or less stupid and entertains them with the different visions that their mind, muddled by these vapours, presents to them; just as those who smoke tobacco may, in their melancholy, draw some satisfaction from the variety of clouds and figures that smoke creates in the air when it comes out of their pipes.

Albertus Bobovius (‘Alī

Ufkī Bey), Topkapi, p. 136 (c. 1665)