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Updated: August 16, 2024
The city abounds in opium-shops shops, that is, where the little opium-lamps and the opium-pipes are stacked in hundreds upon hundreds. Opium is one of the staple products of this rich province, and one of the chief sources of wealth of this flourishing city.
From time to time an adventurous novelist is led round the opium-shops, dancing-saloons, and docks, returning with copy for tales of lust and murder that might just as well be laid in Siberia or Timbuctoo. When we scent an East End story on its way, do we not patiently await the battered head, the floating corpse, the dynamiter's den, or a woman crying over her ill-begotten babe?
The church, which we afterwards visited, is rather an imposing edifice, and is being built by convict labour, at the cost of the Indian Government. June 8th. This morning I visited, in my walk, some of the horrid opium-shops, which we are supposed to do so much to encourage.
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