No word in any European language for "a vice common in Asia"

Mark Swofford recently encountered a variation of the "no word for" trope in a footnote in an 1831 work, History of the Pirates Who Infested the China Sea from 1807 to 1810 (Jìng hǎi fēn jì 靖海氛記), translated by Karl Friedrich Neumann. Here's the passage: Chang paou was a native of Sin hwy, near the [...]