 A more recent abridgment is the translation by Lowell Bair for "Bantam Classics" in 1956.Many abridged translations omit the Count's enthusiasm for hashish.When serving a hashish jam to the young Frenchman Franz d'Épinay, the Count (calling himself Sinbad the Sailor), calls it, "nothing less than the ambrosia which Hebe served at the table of Jupiter."