英語(yǔ)翻譯
It was impossible ,during a mere passage through the country ,to obtain any trustworthy figures regarding production or consumption ,though it is said to be consumed entirly in the neibourhoods in which it is grown and umnixed with the foreign drug,the price being generally reckoned at 300 or 35o cash per tacl,or say 11d.per ounce.the tax which the growers pay to the shanxsi authorities for disobeying the law against the cultivation of poppy is,for land of an average yield,1000 cash per mow a month,and for poorer admitted on all hands that opium-growing is the most profitable trade in mongolia,and that,in spite of the taxation and occasional bad years,it continus to repay the growers handsomely.it appears ,too,that an increased supply in no way affects the general profits,for the greater the quantity cutivated the greater the number of growers and boilers,and as all,together with their families,and smokers,supply and demand continue to balance.