Mission received information from Yencheng that robbers had destroyed their mission premises in Chowtaitow, Honan, Mr. C. Freeman Davies, the missionary there, has been captured, but Mrs. Davies, and Miss E. Poppins, the other missionary are free.
Mr. Davies and Miss Poppins are Australians, while Mrs. Davies is English. tethering ground in tasteful titude on sunny rocks to be dried, when it was dried he stuffed ft into sacks which he loaded on donkeys and took down to the village.
Namojing had just been bonsting that when he went out into the hills to hunt he required very little opium, to keep him goings but when he saw the pipe and the lamp his eyes glistened and he begged for "a mouthful." Neither he nor the cowherd had much fresh opium, so they were reduced to pipe-scrapings, which are popularly supposed to be more deadly than the fresh smok All the attributes of opium.
have their special names. 'A pipe is not yen-eh'iang, (a smoke-gun). The (bowl) but a tox (bean, bulb.) The stem of en opium pipe is commonly eight or 10 inches long, and thicker than the stem of an ordinary Chinese pipe. It can be made of almost any material—bamboo, various woods, cloisonne, metals, and s0 on. In the Northwest, the shank of an antelope is often used. The bow! can be of different materials of which the cheapest ig clay. It is a hollow bulb, with a wide opening to fit fon to the stem, from which it must be easily detachable, and the only other opening is a small pinhole.
The hunter took off this bulb and] seraped the inside of it with a little crooked knife made for the purpose og the opium deposit, which} very much like the serapings of any pipe bowl. These serapingr he pounded to dust with a glass-headed pestle in a small earther-similar scrapings from his own pouch, together with a very small quantity of fresh opium to act as a binding medium. Then he picked up a bronze pin-about the size of a Kmnitting meddle and turned to the} lamp. The lamp ig a tiny affair with a solid wick and a sort of furnace-chimney of glass, smaller at] the top than at the bottom, only} three or four inches in height. Heating the pin in the flame, lis dipped it into the charred opium in the bowl, a little of which melted clinging to the pin. This tiny Jump he warmed again over th: flame, again returning it to the hi?! to pick up some more opium, and so-went on until he kad moulded
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