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8. A represents a Chinese saw; the centre piece (shaded) is 
hollowed out and filled with opium. 
B is a chisel; the wooden handle filled with opium. 
9. A shows one of the most laborious and ingenious methods 
of smuggling 1 have yet seen. Deep holes were drilled in between 
the dovetailing of a cabinet and tubes containing chandu were 
inserted. B shews a section of the dovetailing and X the posi- 
tion of the tubes as they lay on the top and sides of the cabinet. 
10. Another well constructed piece of work entailing much 
time and patience was disclosed in some barrels of fruit. The staves 
were all carefully hollowed out to take a tin made to size, the bot- 
tom of the barrel was treated in a similar manner, and the whole 
carefully fitted together. The ends of the staves were planed 
down so that on looking down into the barrel the thickness at the 
centre would not be so noticeable. 
11. Saucers would hardly be expected to be of use to the 
smuggler, but when one has the Chinese saucer or cup stand to 
deal with it becomes quite another matter; the method of packing 
is simple. 
Take half a dozen or so of European saucers and place them 
at the top and bottom of a stack of Chinese saucers (which have a 
hole in the centre into which the cup fits) ; the space made by the 
saucers is filled up with bladders of chandu and the whole carefully 
done up with straw packing. 
A shows the stack, B a European saucer and C a Chinese 
saucer. 
12. All bamboo furniture is highly suspicious; it is usually 
cheap to buy and one wonders why some people bother to move 
old tables and chairs; however the bamboo legs tell their tale. 
13. Chinese go in for poultry a great deal and make a great 
success of it. One man had a sitting hen, which he must have prized, 
and it was not surprising as her eggs were found to be worth their 
weight in gold, for these eggs were pots of chandu worth $12 each. 
He depended on the reluctance of the sitting hen leaving her eggs, 
or of letting any one touch them. 
B represents a pail of rice. Fowls are usually kept in pens 
on a ship for the use of the larder and they naturally require food, 
but an inquisitive Bevenue Officer interfered with their meal just 
before the ship was leaving port and found a valuable lot of chandu 
concealed at the bottom of the pail under the cooked rice. 
14. The Chinese employed in packing the chandu for sale to 
the public resort to every means to steal it. The Chinese say of 
any one who has anything to do with opium that, some of it is bound 
to stick to the fingers. (Therein lies a double meaning). 
R. A. Soc., No. 83, 1921. 
