opium-juice

Updated: May 28, 2025

In his hand is the bamboo-stemmed pipe, the bowl of which reminds one of the cheap china ink-bottles used in native offices, and close by lies the long thin needle which from time to time he dips in the saucer of opium-juice and holds in the flame until the juice frizzles into a tiny pellet fit for insertion in the bowl of the pipe.

S. M. (Stephen Meredyth) Edwardes - By-Ways of Bombay