A Journey to the Tea Countries of China: Including Sung-Lo and the Bohea Hills; with a Short Notice of the East India Company's Tea Plantations in the Himalaya MountainsJ. Murray, 1852 - 398 стор. |
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... English landscape and in our cemeteries . In publishing this account of my journey I may repeat what I said in the introduction to my former ' Wanderings : ' - " I have no intention of writing or making a book upon China . " My object ...
... English landscape and in our cemeteries . In publishing this account of my journey I may repeat what I said in the introduction to my former ' Wanderings : ' - " I have no intention of writing or making a book upon China . " My object ...
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... English town and shipping -The gardens of the foreign residents Page 1 ― CHAPTER II . - My object in coming north - Difficulty in procuring tea - plants- No dependence can be placed upon the Chinese - Adopt the dress of the country ...
... English town and shipping -The gardens of the foreign residents Page 1 ― CHAPTER II . - My object in coming north - Difficulty in procuring tea - plants- No dependence can be placed upon the Chinese - Adopt the dress of the country ...
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... English gardens -- 272 CHAPTER XVII . Inn at Pouching - hien - Opium - smokers and gamblers - Value of life in China - A midnight disturbance - Sing - Hoo fights with a joss- stick - Difficulty of procuring men next day- Sing - Hoo ...
... English gardens -- 272 CHAPTER XVII . Inn at Pouching - hien - Opium - smokers and gamblers - Value of life in China - A midnight disturbance - Sing - Hoo fights with a joss- stick - Difficulty of procuring men next day- Sing - Hoo ...
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... English town and shipping - The gardens of the foreign residents . - - ON the 14th of August , 1848 , the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam - ship " Braganza , " in which I was a passenger , dropped her anchor in the Bay of Hong ...
... English town and shipping - The gardens of the foreign residents . - - ON the 14th of August , 1848 , the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam - ship " Braganza , " in which I was a passenger , dropped her anchor in the Bay of Hong ...
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... English church was rising slowly on the hill side . up An interest in gardening and planting had sprung which promises to lead to most satisfactory results . When I was formerly in Hong - kong every one com- plained of the barren ...
... English church was rising slowly on the hill side . up An interest in gardening and planting had sprung which promises to lead to most satisfactory results . When I was formerly in Hong - kong every one com- plained of the barren ...
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amongst appearance arrived Azaleas bamboo beautiful black teas bloom boat boatmen Bohea mountains Buddhist canal Canton chair chair-bearers Chang-shan CHAP China Chinaman Chinese Chusan Chusan archipelago colour coolies cultivation dinner distance DISTRICTS OF CHINA England English Fcap Feap feet flowers Fokien foreigners formed garden green teas growing Hang-chow Hang-chow-foo hills Himalayas Hokow Hong-kong Hwuy-chow India journey kind lake land leaves luggage mandarin miles morning moutan Nan-che natives nearly night Ning-po observed onwards pass picul plantations Portrait Post 8vo Pouching-hien Poyang lake priests procured produced province Prussian blue rain rice river road rocks scenery Second Edition seeds seemed seen servants Shanghae shrubs side Sing-Hoo soil soon species specimens stream Sunderbunds taels TEA DISTRICT tea-plants tea-seeds tea-shrub temple Third Edition town travellers trees Tsong-gan-hien valley vegetable Vols walked Wang Woo-e-shan Woodcuts young plants Yuk-shan
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Сторінка 276 - For Green Tea. — When the leaves are brought in from the plantations they are spread out thinly on flat bamboo trays, in order to dry off any superfluous moisture. They remain for a very short time exposed in this manner, generally from one to two hours ; this, however, depends much upon the state of the weather. In the mean time the roasting-pans have been heated with a brisk wood-fire.
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Сторінка 271 - Tea is of a cooling nature, and, if drunk too freely, will produce exhaustion and lassitude. Country people, before drinking it, add ginger and salt to counteract this cooling property. It is an exceedingly useful plant.
Сторінка 277 - Several men take their stations at the rolling table and divide the leaves amongst them. Each takes as many as he can press with his hands, and makes them up in the form of a ball. This is rolled upon the rattan table, worked and greatly compressed, the object being to get rid of a portion of the sap and moisture, and at the same time to twist the leaves.