then these are two lithographs commissioned by a military man in 1850 in beng bengal, india where the british produced a tremendous amount of opium. once they had the milky liquid from the opium they would put it in these -- and they gathered immense quantities of it. so they would put it into these tubs here and stir it about and do various things to it until it congealed and got more solid. then they would form them into balls of opium. this example on the upper right there. it's apparently about the size of a child's head. so these are enormous balls of opium. and you can see from the photo down here when they just produced or the lithograph, they produced a tremendous amount of it. and then it could be in this form, in the form of the balls of opium. it was very easy to transport. it was reasonably preservable so that it wouldn't degrade or decay or anything like that. it could be then sold to consumers, to pharmaceutical companies, presumably you could just eat the opium and get the benefit that way, or it could be used to make preparations like laudanum, paregoric or morphine. a