[38] Comm. on E. I. Finance, 1871, evidence of Sir Cecil Beadon. Dr. Birdwood, in a letter to the _Times_, Jan. 20, 1882, says: "The Rajpoots, though they are all from youth upward literally saturated with opium, are one of the finest, most truthful, and bravest people in the world. The same may be said of the Sikhs." [39] _The Other Side of the Opium Question_, pp. 13, 42. [40] Similarly the Hurkarah, who carries letters and runs messages in India, provided with a small piece of opium, a bag of rice and a lump of bread, will perform incredible journeys.--Sir Rutherford Alcock, Paper before Society of Arts, p. 223. [41] The extract of hemp drunk as a decoction or swallowed as a drug. See _Report on Excise in the Punjaub_, 1880-1881, sect. 24. [42] Moore, p. 90. [43] A sear = 2 lbs. [44] See Memorandum by Sir Charles Aitchison, _passim_, especially App. to Report, p. 13. [45] Report by Mr. Weidemann, deputy-commissioner in Henzada, in Parliamentary paper relating to opium in British Burmah, sect. 11. [46] "British Burmah," an article in the _Times_ for Aug. 20, 1882. [47] See a note appended to Sir Charles Aitchison's Report by Mr. C. Bernard, officiating Chief Commissioner in British Burmah. [48] _Times_, Aug. 20, 1882. [49] Memorandum, sect. 9. [50] _Cf._ the havoc wrought by the "blue flame," introduced by Europeans, among the Red Indians of America. [51] Memorandum, sect. 4. [52] Memorandum, sect. 13. [53] Bringing in a revenue of £175,000. [54] Dr. Christlieb. [55] _Confessions of an English Opium-Eater_, p. 5. [56] Dr. Moore, p. 11, 48, 55. [57] _Ibid._, p. 56. [58] July 12, 1883. This has now been further reduced. [59] Dr. Christlieb says 1,033,000 acres--an obvious exaggeration. [60] The districts of Indore, Bhopal, &c. [61] Mr. Storrs Turner himself, the secretary of the Society, allows that this is a difficult part of the question. See his article in the _Nineteenth Century_, Feb. 1882. [62] Mr. Brereton (p. 74) estimates the amount consumed in California alone to be worth £100,000. [63] Mr. Acheson, in a memorandum to the Custom inspectorate from Canton, says it amounts to 5,000 piculs. [64] This, however, does not fairly represent the difference, as Indian opium yields twenty per cent. more extract. [65] Brereton, p. 139. [66] Financial Statement, 1882, sect. 172. [67] The Right Hon. J. Whittaker Ellis. [68] Dr. Christlieb, a German professor, says 400,000; but Dr. Medhurst, a medical man resident for years in China, with all his life-long experience and knowledge would not even hazard a conjecture as to the annual death-rate. Dr. Lockhart says, "It is impossible to say what is the number of such victims either among the higher or lower classes." _Ait Varius, negat Scaurus. Utri creditis, Quirites?_