A Vindication of England's Policy with Regard to the Opium Trade

by Charles Reginald Haines

[41] The extract of hemp drunk as a decoction or swallowed as a drug. See Report on Excise in the Punjaub, 1880-1881, sect. 24.

[42] Moore, p. 90.

[43] A sear = 2 lbs.

[44] See Memorandum by Sir Charles Aitchison, passim, especially App. to Report, p. 13.

[45] Report by Mr. Weidemann, deputy-commissioner in Henzada, in Parliamentary paper relating to opium in British Burmah, sect. 11.

[46] “British Burmah,” an article in the Times for Aug. 20, 1882.

[47] See a note appended to Sir Charles Aitchison’s Report by Mr. C. Bernard, officiating Chief Commissioner in British Burmah.

[48] Times, Aug. 20, 1882.

[49] Memorandum, sect. 9.

[50] Cf. the havoc wrought by the “blue flame,” introduced by Europeans, among the Red Indians of America.