Of all the sea trades engaged in by man from the times of the Phoenicians right down to the present day, that of the opium traffic into China was one of the most risky and adventurous, for it was a forbidden trade on a scarcely-known coast amidst wild, stormy seas and in the haunts of the most cruel pirates the world has ever known.
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