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" The rooms where they sit and smoke, are surrounded by wooden couches, with places for the head to rest upon, and generally a side room is devoted to gambling. "
The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India ... - Page 219
1841
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The Dublin university magazine

University magazine - 1848 - 792 pages
...to satisfy tbeir depraved appetites. " The rooms where they sit and smoke are surrounded by wooden couches, with places for the head to rest upon, and generally a side- room is devoUd to gambling. The pipe is a reod of about an inch in diameter, and the aperture in the bowl for...
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The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volume 14

Fashion - 456 pages
...bead to rest upon, and generally a side room is deToted to gambling. The pipe ia a reed of about nn inch in diameter, and the aperture in the bowl for...admission of the opium is not larger than a pin's bead. The drug is prepared with some kind of conserve, and a very small portion ia sufficient to charge...
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The Journal of Civilization: Established for the Promotion of Civilization ...

Civilization - 1851 - 428 pages
...gaze than the bestiality of the latter. The rooms where they sit and smoke are surrounded by wooden couches, with places for the head to rest upon, and...the aperture in the bowl for the admission of the opinm is not larger than a pin's head. The drug is prepared with some kind of conserve, and a very...
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"Ten Thousand Chinese Things.": A Descriptive Catalogue of the Chinese ...

Nathan Dunn, William B. Langdon - China - 1842 - 212 pages
...than the bestiality of the latter. * * * The rooms where they sit and smoke are surrounded by wooden couches, with places for the head to rest upon, and...not larger than a pin's head. The drug is prepared by boiling and evaporation to the consistence of treacle, and a very small portion is sufficient to...
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Ten Thousand Things Relating to China and the Chinese: An Epitome of the ...

Nathan Dunn, William B. Langdon - Art objects, Chinese - 1842 - 338 pages
...debauchee, has something far more awful to the gaze than the bestiality of the latter. * * The rooms gambling. The pipe is a reed of about an inch in diameter,...not larger than a pin's head. The drug is prepared by boiling and evaporation to the consistence of treacle, and a very small portion is sufficient to...
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The Saint Petersburg English Review of Literature, the Arts and ..., Volume 1

1842 - 602 pages
...places to satisfy their depraved appetites. The rooms where they sit and smoke are surrounded by wooden couches, with places for the head to rest upon, and generally a side-room is devoted to gambling. The pipe is a reed of about an inch in diameter, and the aperture...
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Chinese Collection, Now Exhibiting at St ...

William B. Langdon, Nathan Dunn - Art objects, Chinese - 1843 - 176 pages
...than the bestiality of the other. * * * The rooms where they sit and smoke are surrounded by wooden couches with places for the head to rest upon, and...not larger than a pin's head. The drug is prepared by boiling and evaporation to the consistence of treacle, and a very small portion is sufficient to...
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China, in a Series of Views, Displaying the Scenery ..., Volume 228

Thomas Allom - China - 1843 - 260 pages
...to satisfy their depraved appetites. " The rooms where they sit and smoke are surrounded by wooden couches, with places for the head to rest upon, and generally a side-room is devoted to gambling. The pipe is a reed of about an inch in diameter, and the aperture...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 15

American periodicals - 1848 - 602 pages
...are surrounded by wooden couches, with j>laces for the head to rest upon, and generally a Ride-room is devoted to gambling. The pipe is a reed of about...an inch in diameter, and the aperture in the bowl (or the admission of opium is not larger than a pin's head. The drug is prepared with some kind of...
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An Essay on the Opium Trade: Including a Sketch of Its History, Extent ...

Nathan Allen - Commerce - 1850 - 78 pages
...places to satisfy their depraved appetites. The rooms where they sit and smoke, are surrounded by wooden couches, with places for the head to rest upon, and...in diameter, and the aperture in the bowl for the admixture of Opium, is not larger than a pin's head. The drug is prepared with some kind of conserve,...
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