This little painphlet, which was composed with the view of exposing the mischievous effects of opium-eating, which had long been praying upon the very vitals of Assam, was first published in 1861, with the pecuniary aid of Babu Ootsubananda Gossain, Deputy Inspector of Schools. The author then was far from entertaining a hope that it would meet with so good a reception from the public, and was therefore agreeably surprised to find that all the copies of the first impression were readily disposed of, which, if a warm acceptance of a book by the public at large, is any criterion of this inerits, spoke favourably of the work. But although desirous of publishing a second edition to meet the increasing demand for copies, the author, owing to certain unavoidable circumstances had not been able to accomplish his object, and almost abandoned the idea of doing so, when Mr. A. C. Campbell (Persunal Assistant to the Agent Governor General N. E. Frontier and Commissioner of Assam), one of those generous hearted English gentlemen, who take a lively interest in the Assamese language and the welfare of the Province, asked him to republish the book
