I. Smuggling and Smugglers 1 II. Bribery and Corruption 9 III. Informers and Information 14 IV. Some Anecdotes of Smugglers and Smuggling 20 V. More Anecdotes 28 VI. Observations on Smugglers and Smuggling 33 VII. Opium 35 VIII. Opium Smoking and Opium Eating 44 IX. Some Observations on the Opium Habit 51 X. Morphia 57 XI. Cocaine 65 XII. Hemp Drugs 75 APPENDIX. An Historical Note on Opium in India and Burma 82 ILLUSTRATIONS. Group of Opium Smokers Frontispiece Facing page An Excessive Opium Smoker 40 Opium Smokers’ Appliances 46 Preparing to Smoke Opium 48 Chinaman Smoking Opium 50 Group of Morphia Injectors 58 An Indian Morphinist 62 A Burman Cocaine Eater 72 SMUGGLING. CHAPTER I. SMUGGLING AND SMUGGLERS. Everybody is a smuggler at heart! Our innate free-trade instincts and love of liberty revolt against what we look upon as uncalled for interference with our rights when we are called upon to declare and pay duty on a box of cigars or a bottle of whisky when we disembark at a Customs port; and we look upon evasions of these obligations, not as evidences of moral obliquity, but as a very proper exercise of the exemption which we claim as our right. On the whole, this point of view is to be sympathized with, and in the case of such innocuous articles as laces, scent, and feathers, it is to be excused; the mysteries of the revenue law, and the underlying principles of taxation, are unfamiliar to most of us. But a greater degree of culpability must be attached to those who seek to evade the law by the illicit importation of articles whose unrestricted use produces nothing but harm; and while the former class of delicts may be classed as mere revenue offences, the latter must be treated as crimes and severely punished as such.