[19] This description is drawn from an official report of opium culture. No doubt it varies somewhat in different places, but the fact of the great labour required is true of it everywhere.
[20] China’s only Hope—written by Chang Chih-Tung, China’s greatest Viceroy after China’s defeat by Japan. More than one million copies of it were sold, so great was its popularity.
[21] On the Trail of the Opium Poppy, Vol. II, p. 3. For the names of many trees and plants given in this volume I am indebted to this writer.
[22] The high priest of Taoism in Kiangsi is called “High Priest of the Dragon and Tiger Mountains” (Hackmann’s Der Buddhismus, p. 186), and I have seen tiger shrines on Mount Omi.
[23] The Keh-lao are a group of tribes quite distinct from the Miao and I-chia, with a language of their own. The Ya-Ya Keh-lao are so called because every bride has a front tooth (= ya) broken.
[24] The character “ching” is different from the above.
[25] S. R. Clarke’s Among the Tribes in South-West China, pp. 41, 42.
[26] See M. E. Burton’s admirable book, Notable Women of Modern China (published by Fleming Revell).
[27] I am indebted for much information on this point to T. Tingfang Lew, M.A., B.D. (Yale), Lecturer on Psychology, National University, Peking, etc. etc.
[28] I am greatly indebted to a series of articles by Mr. T. Bowen Partington in the Financier for these and other trade details in different parts of the book.