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mace

of

the

122

book opium, without any

effect observed on him what ever he'

chatty and lively the whole time.

I smoked

mapely

the

tamil.

between two or three mace

wwerhalt

feeling any effect whatever I have

smoked hundreds

of

times in the last

I have been in China and

twenty years

my

never felt any effect at all - See Annual Report with the Government Analyst's Report

on

appendix

Ever reaches

experiment made at my request which is added as an appendix. I do not believe that morphine reaches the smoker; the length of the pipe is about 18 inches and before the morphine in the smoke reaches the smoker's lips it is thrown out.

the smoke onto the stem.

Certainly not. The great majority of

Question No.

of in caters and smokers are in their consumption - see my

Annual

Report where I have given two cases, one

of

excessive and one

of

moderate opium smoker.

Question No. Y.

a

Question No. 8.

No. It's a minority in all cases and

small minority

at that and it

calls for

effect whatever on their calling

and they are just

as keen as a non consumer

in looking after their own interests.

There is no comparison as any observer in the East could tell you. A drinker