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Chinese pictures : notes on photographs made in China (1900)

Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 · London ; New York : Cassell and Company · leaf 130

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of the women, in one or two populousprovinces, are opium smokers. They do not all smoke toexcess. There are moderate smokers as we have ourmoderate drinkers ; but all through the province of SzeChuan the opium shops are as thick as the gin shops inthe lower parts of London. It is not necessary to… … OPIUM CULTURE ENCROACHING ON THE RICE LANDS, SZE CHUAN. Printed by Casskll & Company, Limited, La Belle Sauvage, London, E.C. on<cl - A )v

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