ABSTRACT
The infamy of having introduced this demoralizing vice into Eastern Bengal attaches to one Sonaullah of Ruknpúr, in the city of Dacca, who, about 1830, brought a Chinaman from Calcutta and opened an opium shop in the city. The vice at once captivated the sensual Muhammadans, and within twenty years as many as twenty-two shops were opened, but at present, owing to the heavy licensing tax, the number is reduced to eleven.
