was experienced the other night, by one of the opium junks, that lay in the month of the unknown river at Shepa, suddenly bursting into flame, and as she lay closely
works catch flame like tinder, it looked as surrounded by other junks, whose upper if we were in for a repetition of the scene of September '92, when the river was lit up for miles, one night, by floating debris that gave the steamers and inshore junks a bad time. These also came from Po! hepa. Luckily on the present occasion the opium den was immediately isolated and it burnt down to the water's edge without further injury to surrounding property.
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