The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.
Interested to test for himself the effects of Cannibis Indica on the creative imagination, the narrator persuades a pharmacist friend to supply him with a small quantity of the drug and monitor its effects, and to also act as the narrator's amanuensis while he is under its influence. The narrator offers readers the story he imagined, and includes explanatory notes about the objects that inspired him.