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street no less than 4 Opium Shops. In Circular Road there are no 
less than 12 frequented hy blacksmiths, huxters, barbers and boat¬ 
men. In Canton Street, which has 8 houses, there are 2 Opium 
Shops, the great resort of boatmen and huxters. In Carpenter 
Street we have 6, in Church Street 6, in South Bridge Road 6, prin¬ 
cipally frequented by Gambier people and gardeners, this being one 
of the principal entrances from the country to the Merchant’s go- 
downs and in a street without a name; hut near to the Sepoy lines, 
wc have the sepoys themselves resorting to the 2 Opium Shops in it. 
In Kampong Java, we have many Chinese, hut many Javanese also 
frequent the opium shops there. In Kampong Bugis are two shops 
frequented by a few of that nation; hut principally by Chinamen 
settled amongst them. 
In Kampong Bawfan I know there is not a shop, and I know there 
are hut one or two instances of that class, giving themselves up to 
the vice. Formerly we had coupled with an opium shop a gambling 
one ; but now if such an arrangement does exist, it is so well con¬ 
cealed, that during all my visits I never witnessed a Poa table, and 
frequently on interrogating an opium smoker, he will say that since 
the public suppression of gambling, his fortune has changed, his live¬ 
lihood has gone and he cannot afford to smoke (for he has not got the 
money) half the quantity of Chandu that he was wont. This may 
account in a measure for the diminished quantity of opium consumed 
this year when compared to last, although one most respectable Chi¬ 
naman who was formerly the Opium Farmer, says, the consumption 
of opium is hut little affected by Gambling, from Arrack or Samslra 
being the intoxicating medium used, a much better instrument for 
raising excitement and stimulating to excessive play than opium, 
whose effects as we have shewn, are much more sedative than excit- 
