He will be charged with your murder, and may be executed for the crime; he will be utterly ruined in establishing, if he can establish, his innocence; and he will be haunted ever after by your avenging spirit.
Occasionally two men who have quarrelled will take poison together, and their spirits will fight it out in heaven.

Opium is very cheap in Chaotong, costing only fivepence an ounce for the crude article.

You see it exposed for sale everywhere, like thick treacle in dirty besmeared jars.

It is largely adulterated with ground pigskin, the adulteration being detected by the craving being unsatisfied.

Mohammedans have a holy loathing of the pig, and look with contempt on their countrymen whose chief meat-food is pork.