He burned it. He set about destroying the held opium. After enclosing
the site with a bamboo barrier to avoid theft, three stone quarries, lined with
wood, were excavated into which was discharged the seized opium along
with salt and lime. A minor disruption happened when one man was caught
trying to take away an amount of the drug—he was then executed right at that
moment. Once the excavation had been occupied with sea water, laborers
plodded the mixture to safeguard the drug's annihilation. The remainder was
then flushed through a waterway into the South China Sea while Lin said an appeal
saying sorry for the pollution they have caused.
