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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... servants now procured me a Chinese dress , and had the tail which I had worn in former years nicely dressed by the barber . Everything was soon in readiness except the boat which had to be engaged for the first stage of our journey ...
... servants now procured me a Chinese dress , and had the tail which I had worn in former years nicely dressed by the barber . Everything was soon in readiness except the boat which had to be engaged for the first stage of our journey ...
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... servants and boatmen to be very satisfactory . The whole country to the westward of Shanghae is intersected with rivers and canals , so that the tra- veller can visit by boat almost all the towns and cities in this part of the province ...
... servants and boatmen to be very satisfactory . The whole country to the westward of Shanghae is intersected with rivers and canals , so that the tra- veller can visit by boat almost all the towns and cities in this part of the province ...
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... servants and the boatmen told stories of celebrated pirates and robbers , until they frightened themselves , and almost made me believe myself to be in dangerous company . The wind was very high , and , as it whistled amongst the ...
... servants and the boatmen told stories of celebrated pirates and robbers , until they frightened themselves , and almost made me believe myself to be in dangerous company . The wind was very high , and , as it whistled amongst the ...
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... servants to follow me , proceeded along the narrow streets at a rapid pace . After travelling in this way for about a mile , and expecting every moment to get out into the open country , I was greatly surprised by finding that I was ...
... servants to follow me , proceeded along the narrow streets at a rapid pace . After travelling in this way for about a mile , and expecting every moment to get out into the open country , I was greatly surprised by finding that I was ...
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... servants , from whom I expected an explana- tion , for I had understood that the chairmen had been paid to take me the whole way through . My servants , however , were nowhere to be seen - they had either gone some other road , or ...
... servants , from whom I expected an explana- tion , for I had understood that the chairmen had been paid to take me the whole way through . My servants , however , were nowhere to be seen - they had either gone some other road , or ...
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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