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Passage from W. Griffith's journal of the Bhutan mission of 1837-38, printed page 176 of Political Missions to Bootan (Calcutta, 1865): a few straggling plants of hemp are met with among most villages at low elevations, but none grown to an extent suggesting any use was made of it.

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Original: Political Missions to Bootan, comprising the reports of the Hon'ble Ashley Eden, 1864; Capt. R. B. Pemberton, 1837, 1838, with Dr. W. Griffiths's journal; and the account by Baboo Kishen Kant Bose (Calcutta: printed at the Bengal Secretariat Office, 1865; facsimile reprint New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 2001; archive.org scan digitized 2019 with funding from Public.Resource.Org), printed page 176 (page 350 of the PDF scan), https://archive.org/details/poloticalmission00ashl.
Changes: cropped to Griffith's journal of the Bhutan mission of 1837-38: a few straggling plants of hemp among most villages at low elevations, none grown to any extent, rendered at 300 dpi, downscaled to 1280 × 355 pixels; tones not adjusted.
Identification: PDF in sources/ (archive.org poloticalmission00ashl, AES 2001 facsimile of the 1865 Calcutta edition), pdf page 350, printed page 176, running head 'DR. W. GRIFFITHS' JOURNAL': '... They do not appear to be great pân-eaters ... A few straggling plants of hemp are to be met with amongst most villages at rather low elevations, but I never saw any to an extent sufficient to warrant me in supposing that any use was made of it.'

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