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other case?
88.-Can you refer to
any
A.-There was a case of 10 balls. That was the same man, and I handed the opium back to him.
89.—Are these all the cases you have known within your experience of quantities of any consequence being taken, over to Yaumáti?
A-Yes, of large quantities.
90.-Between 10 and 500 balls?
A. Yes.
91. You have known of smaller quantities?
A. Yes.
92. When the opium is taken to the Kaulung District what is done with it?
A.—As a rule, and especially if it is in large quantities, it is stored away in huts, and the smugglers send out their spies to ascertain if there is a clear coast from the Chinese Revenue employés.
93. How do they send it?
A. They carry it in bags which they put across their shoulder on bamboos-blue cotton bags specially made for the purpose. Each bag would hold from 10 to 14 balls. It is a long blue bag.
94.-How do they go? Do they go singly?
A. As a rule they go in numbers, in Indian file.
95. Are they armed?
A.As a rule a number of them are not armed. There is a class of men who call themselves cattle dealers, and whom I have questioned with reference to smuggling. As a rule I have met them without arms.
96. You have frequently stopped these people and examined their bundles?
A. Yes.
97.-Have they always produced bills of purchase?
A.-In every case. I have never known a case where they did not produce a bill.
98.-How do you know they intended to smuggle? How do you know they had not got the Grand Chop or Customs receipts, which can be obtained over at Ch'éung- chau or in Hongkong itself?
A.-The only way I knew was from their own statement that they were smuggling.
99.-What time was it when you met them?
A.-Always at night. I never met them in any single case in the day time.
100.-Have you ever passed the Customs Stations? What means have they of preventing smuggling?
A. They have plenty of men at any time. I have met at Kaulungtsai as many as 39 men all armed with old muskets and gingals.
Mr. RYRIE.-Then they are summoned for the purpose. I never see any one there.