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. |
З цієї книги
Результати 1-5 із 47
Сторінка v
... now venture to lay an account of my travels and their results before the public . Blessed with a sound constitution and good health , I cared little for luxuries , and made light of the hardships of a traveller's life . New scenes , a 2.
... now venture to lay an account of my travels and their results before the public . Blessed with a sound constitution and good health , I cared little for luxuries , and made light of the hardships of a traveller's life . New scenes , a 2.
Сторінка vi
... 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 is to give a peep into the Celestial Empire , to show its ...
... 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 is to give a peep into the Celestial Empire , to show its ...
Сторінка 11
... account of it in the Athenæum , ' and in 1846 I described it more fully in my Wanderings . ' In both these works I ventured to point it out as a place likely to become of great importance both to England and America as a port of trade ...
... account of it in the Athenæum , ' and in 1846 I described it more fully in my Wanderings . ' In both these works I ventured to point it out as a place likely to become of great importance both to England and America as a port of trade ...
Сторінка 22
... account it was impossible to engage a boat as a foreigner , and I desired my servant to hire it in his own name , and merely state that two other per- sons were to accompany him . He agreed to this plan , and soon returned with a " chop ...
... account it was impossible to engage a boat as a foreigner , and I desired my servant to hire it in his own name , and merely state that two other per- sons were to accompany him . He agreed to this plan , and soon returned with a " chop ...
Сторінка 57
... a fine species named Lyco- podium Willdenovii . Amongst the trees the most common were the Dryandra cordata of Thunberg , the tung - eu of the Chinese , which is valuable on account of the quantity CHAP . III . 57 BOTANY OF THE COUNTRY .
... a fine species named Lyco- podium Willdenovii . Amongst the trees the most common were the Dryandra cordata of Thunberg , the tung - eu of the Chinese , which is valuable on account of the quantity CHAP . III . 57 BOTANY OF THE COUNTRY .
Інші видання - Показати все
Загальні терміни та фрази
amongst appearance arrived Azaleas bamboo banks beautiful black teas bloom boat boatmen Bohea mountains brought Buddhist canal Canton chair chair-bearers Chang-shan China Chinamen Chinese Chusan Chusan archipelago colour coolies cultivation dinner distance England English Fcap feet flowers Fokien Foo-chow foreigners formed garden green teas growing Hang-chow Hang-chow-foo hills Himalayas Hokow Hong-kong Hwuy-chow India island journey kind lake land leaves LORD luggage mandarin miles morning moutan Nan-che natives nearly night Ning-po observed onwards pass picul plantations Plates Portrait Post 8vo Poyang lake priests procured province Prussian blue quantity 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