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(e) No.
(f) Very probably.
36. Yes; there is some reason, but not very
much. The fact that the drinkers of alcohol are
increasing, whereas those that use ganja do not
seem to increase, but rather to decrease.
39. Smoking is said to be less injurious, be-
cause those who smoke do not commit such
excesses as those that drink.
40. (a) Yes.
(b) Yes.
41. (a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) No.
Nearly all use it more or less for staying power.
42. I consider it harmful, because of the effect
on those who use it, taking away their appetite,
causing redness of eyes, general debility, and such
difficulties as asthma.
43. They are not offensive.
44. (a) It produces intoxication.
(e) It prevents hunger.
(f) Three or four hours.
(h) Weakness follows and a longing for it.
45. (a) It exaggerates effects referred to under
44.
(d) Yes.
(e) It does
(f) It does.
49. (a) It is used.
(b) Prostitutes do use it.
(d) It is supposed to.
51. I suppose that it is used with alcohol for
crime, but have no specific information.
153. Evidence of the REV. H. F. LAFLAMME, Canadian Baptist Mission,
Yellamanchili, Vizagapatam.
1. The evidence given below represents inform-
ation gathered from the following :
—
Rev. J. Craig, B.A., Akidu, Godavari, a mis-
sionary of the Canadian Baptist Mission of fifteen
years and over of Indian experience.
Rev. G. Churchill, Bobbili, Vizagapatam, of
the Canadian Baptist Mission, with an experience
of almost twenty years in India, a man of quick
perception and of an intelligent interest in all
Indian affairs.
Rev. J. R. Stillwell, B.A., Samalkota, Godavari,
the President of the Literary and Theological
Seminary for the Canadian Baptist Mission, with
an annual attendance of some 80 or 100 young
men coming from different parts of the Kistna,
Godavari, Vizagapatam, and Ganjam districts.
His Indian experience extends over eight years.
Rev, J. E. Davis, B.A., of Cocanada, of the same
mission, with an Indian experience of over six
years and a very intimate knowledge of all the
large and densely populated country within a
radius of 40 miles about Cocanada.
Rev. R. Garside, B.A., of Tuni, Godavari, of the
same mission, with an Indian experience of six
years.
Rev. J. G. Brown, B.A., of Vuyyuru, Kistna,
with an Indian experience of some four years and
a knowledge of the taluks on the north banks of
the Kistna next the sea.
The writer's experience in India extends over
six years.
2. Charas is used in North India, but is not
known extensively so far south as this.
Bhang and ganja are both known here ; the
former as bangi or bangu and the latter as ganjai.
As the cultivation is illicit, information under
this head is difficult to secure, and such fine dis-
tinctions do not seem to hold as broken, flat, and
round ganja. From samples seen, the round
seems to be the only kind used.
3. I have not authentic information, but
several informants have stated that in the Agency
tracts and the jungle parts of these districts, ex-
cepting the Kistna, of which I have no informa-
tion, the hemp plant grows spontaneously.
7. Yes.
(a) Yes.
(b) Not as known.
(c) Yes.
(d)Not as known.
In the Godavari delta in the taluk of Yenaqu-
dam, in Cocanada, Samalkota, Narsapatnam, Yella-
manchili, Vizagapatam, Vizianagram, Chicacole,
Bobbili, and some surrounding villages, Berhampur,
and Cuttack, in all of which places the plant has
been seen by informants.
The cultivation is not extensive, and no land is
set apart for that special purpose. But a few
plants grow in the backyards and garden plots of
those addicted to its use for personal consumption
and by a few daring men who eke out a profit by
selling it. The mats, or peculiar home of the
religious mendicants, sanyasis, or, as they are
termed in these parts, bairagalu, have usually quite
a garden plot attached in which the hemp plant is
cultivated, but only to supply the need of the
monks and. their disciples. Such monasteries
exist, I am informed, at large places like Samalkota,
Chicacole, Berhampur, etc.
8. The answer seems to be that the cultivation
of the plant is gradually extending in Ganjam,
Vizagapatam, and is being introduced into Coca-
nada and such places.
As for Yellamanchili, some four years ago,
when the writer first came to the place, very
little was grown owing to a recent proclamation
All of the above have a thorough knowledge of
the vernacular, and through constant touring in
the villages are intimately acquainted with the
general condition of the people of all castes. Their
evidence, as given below, represents not only
knowledge acquired from personal observation,
but that acquired by conversation with all classes
of the people, from the college-graduated Govern-
ment servant to the village sweeper.
This information represents the sea-board dis-
tricts from the Kistna to Ganjam, including only
the Telugu portion, or as far as Berhampur of
that district, as well as some few facts regarding
Burma in the vicinity of Rangoon.