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                            BABOE DALIMA;
                                 OR,
                           THE OPIUM FIEND.


                                  BY
                            T. H. PERELAER

                   TRANSLATED FROM THE DUTCH BY THE
                       Rev. E. J. VENNING, M.A.








                                LONDON:
                 VIZETELLY & CO., 16 HENRIETTA STREET,
                             COVENT GARDEN.
                                 1888.








BABOE DALIMA;

OR, THE OPIUM FIEND.


CHAPTER I.

AT MOEARA TJATJING.


It was a terrible night in February 188-.

A violent storm from the north-west was raging along the northern coast
of Java. The wind howled and roared as though a legion of fiends were
holding