A Californian circling the globe . arly $500. Over500,000 acres of the richest land in India, mostly in Burmah,is used annually in growing the poppy. The Indian gov-ernment is behind the whole arrangement, dictating as tohow much shall be grown, and at present the exports areonly allowed to reach a total of 4000 cases each this opium on China, as England, through its In-dian government, has done for over fifty years, is the black-est and greatest crime of any age or century. England getsbetween 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 English pounds sterling inrevenue out of this atrocious traffi
A Californian circling the globe . arly $500. Over500,000 acres of the richest land in India, mostly in Burmah,is used annually in growing the poppy. The Indian gov-ernment is behind the whole arrangement, dictating as tohow much shall be grown, and at present the exports areonly allowed to reach a total of 4000 cases each this opium on China, as England, through its In-dian government, has done for over fifty years, is the black-est and greatest crime of any age or century. England getsbetween 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 English pounds sterling inrevenue out of this atrocious traffic each year. They thinkthey need it to run the Indian government with. UnlessEngland tries to remedy this great wrong and abolish it, herflag will trail in the dust, her pride will totter and fall, asI believe that even now hosts of avenging angels are gath-ering thicker than the stars to cut down this proud nation,as the depth and misery of this great wrong is greater thananything that can be found in the annals of human NATIVES STRIPPING FOR PLAGUE INSPECTION CALCUTTA, INDIA INDIA, CHINA AND JAPAN. 313 Early in the morning the steamer sailed with a large cargoof rice, jute bags, and over $1,000,000 worth of opium, butabout ten miles down the river, as the tide commenced toebb, it stopped, cast its anchors and awaited the return flowof the tide. Fleets of native boats kept passing up and down the river,all of them having a little bamboo house on them for thenatives to crawl in as they wanted shelter and food. Many banana trees are growing on the land near theriver—just slender stalks, as it seems to be their nature thateach stalk, as it fruits, never lives to fruit again. In the afternoon we again sailed a few miles and cast an-chor as the darkness came on. The Hugh river is a treacherous one, and if ever any shipgets aground, the quicksands will not forego their grasp. The mosquitoes came to levy toll on everyone who failedto brush them away. As I retired, clouds
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