trace of any of
the
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characteristics that one
would find in
a
community
debilitated by
foul known
Cause such as
scarcity
of food, epidemic of
sickness and so
I have
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set forth.
experience of
the effects of opium upon
the Malays who
are a
small minority of
the
Asiatic population in
this Colony,
able to
Lay
down whether there
are distinctions upon
consumers of different
races.
The Chinese to a
limited extent
eat
and do
not smoke it. In rare
cases of excessive addiction to the habit it is customary