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5. A round tiu tagar, or pan, used for holding samples, with its 



cover. 



6. A small specimen of Opium adulterated by water, in a bottle. 



7. Opium adulterated by pussewah, in a bottle. 



8. A rake for mixing the Opium in the vat, for making it of one 



uoiform quality. 



9. A brass cup, used in caking, 



10. Earthen cups, in which the balls are dried. 



11. A chest, with its compartments, as ready for fiJling, 



13. A ball of Opium as ready for the China market, equal in value 

 to 1 seer 10 chittacks of Opium, at 75° consistence factory weight, and 

 5^ chittacks of lewah or paste at 51^ consistence, and 5^ chittacks of 

 Poppy leaves, or puttie. 



13. A cake of Opium as prepared for the Medical Board. 



14. A shell, half-made. 



15. Some patched Poppy pods. 



16. Some unpatched Poppy pods. 



17. Two sittooas, or scoops, for collecting the "Poppy juice from the 

 pods. 



18. Earthen kurraces. 



19. A brass lewah cup. This cup contains lewah sufficient for one 

 cake. 



20. A kareegur, or cake-makcr*3 seat. 



21. A tray, in which Poppy leaves are served out to the cake-makers, 

 23. A tray, in which Opium balls are made by the cake-makers. 



23. A stool for keeping tagars. 



24, A tin tagar, for holding Opium sufficient for five cakes. 



fillin 



partments in the chest. 



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27- A brass thallee, or edged plate, in which the fresh Opium is 

 collected by the Poppy cultivators. 



We must now return from the collection in the great Room No. 3, 

 case 54, to the continuation of this collection in Eoom No. 1, and the 

 case marked Papavebacjk^ ; and we shall fiud, in further connection 

 with Opium (Palaver sotauiferum), 



Poppy-heads, varying in form and size, from diiiercnt localities. 



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