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 Mountains (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Fortune, Robert

 
9781528450874: 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 Mountains (Classic Reprint)

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IT is now about five years since I submitted to the public my Three Years' Wanderings in the N orthern Provinces of China.' Shortly after the publication of that volume I was deputed by the Honourable the Court of Directors of the East India Company to proceed to China for the purpose of obtaining the finest varieties of the Tea-plant, as well as native manufacturers and implements, for the Government Tea plantations in the Himalayas. Ou the 20th of J une, 1848, I left Southampton, with many other passengers, in the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Ripon,' Captain Morwby, i.n., and landed in Hong-kong on the 14th of August.

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