1890 Coca and its Therapeutic Application by Angelo Mariani

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profited by their freedom from the restrictions imposed by the native rulers in regard to the consumption of Coca, and sewn the use of this leaf became so common that it has been compared by every one interested in the question to the use of tobacco by us; and, as it has justly been added, -without its objections. There is no more likeli hood of seeing a smoker embark -without his tobacco than an Indian begin -work or undertake a journey unle.ss his chuspa(pouch)is full of Coca leaves. Three or four times

NATIVES OF COLOMBIA CHEWING COCA. a day he sits do-wn, takes some leaves, puts them one by one into his mouth and rolls them into an aculio (quid), adding a little llipta(lime), which he takes from his ever- present poporo. The poporo is a little gourd, bored at the mouth on the upper part, in which the Indian keeps his llipta. This llipta is a white powder compo.sed of ashes of vegetables and of calcined shells pulverized,-with which the consumers of Coca have been accustomed,from the most remote times,to season their quid. It is,really,an alkaline