On a stormy night on the north coast of Java, smugglers land opium at Moeara Tjatjing, and the story widens into an exposure of the Dutch government’s opium monopoly. Corrupt officials such as the Van Gulpendam family, an honest young lawyer, Chinese opium farmers and the Javanese nursemaid Dalima are drawn into plots, trials and revenge.
A Dutch protest novel against colonial opium policy, written by a former army officer and translated in 1888. Download the free EPUB.