GAMING k GAMULTNtJ, 2&> 



not only condemn, but avoid them — " Diya tnakau 

 M Jan htsoop chando i, dan main jndi" — '*be eats anil 

 • snakes opium and games" — are terms of reproach 

 which are daily uttered by persons of every class, and 

 even those natives wlw> are most notoriously obnoxi- 

 ous to this reproach, cannot hear to he publicly launt- 

 ed with it, knowing full well how it affects their cre- 

 dit and character in society, and how it renders tbeni 

 objects of sn spin ion to the police, and to every one 

 whose property has been robl>cd. 



U'ere Ihe use of opium to be interdicted as rig idly 

 as I I n- practice of gaming is, the mass of the people 

 would probably soon become debased ; not so niiich 

 b;'i\iuse the indulgence would be more cheaply 

 proc arable, hut on other accounts. Where tlie 

 propensity to the vices of smoking or eating 

 opium, and gaming or gambling, can only with 

 safely he openly indulged in, the dread of logs of 

 r j itation will deter numbers from risking its loss. 

 But where a prohibition < exists, and these practiced 

 may \el be pri lately enjoyed, at a sljghl risk of 

 <i<u><tv\i\ di.it salutary dread is removed, and the 

 temptation becomes irresistible. It is in vain to urge 

 thai men who have any reputation to lose, or any res- 

 p&tahiliiy of character, will be found hvrpientin-; the 

 common acid tjpeto opium shops, or open gambling- 

 houses, supposing that these last were not under the 

 ban of the law . The law of necessity connives at, be- 

 cause if cannot reach, several disputable and demoraliz- 

 ing practices; yet no grave and Meeting native would 

 therefore follow them, any more than that he would 

 desire to be Known as a devout Worshipper at the 

 spurious shrine of the Paplnau goddess. 



When gaining was licensed at this Settlement, the 

 holder of (be license— as the farmer of the license 

 to it lail opium now does, — kept in his pay a large 



