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tea should contain a glightly less amount of tannin than one 

 of China tea. The other advantages of Indian tea are that 

 the manufacture of it is conducted with scrupulous attention 

 to cleanliness in well-ordered factories, and the rolling is done 



WITHERING TEA 



by machinery, whereas in China it is a domestic industry 

 and the rolling is performed by the hands or by bare feet. 



SOURCES OF SUPPLY. At present India (Assam, Darjeeling, 

 Punjab, Travancore, and Nilgiri) and Ceylon are the chief 

 tea-producing countries in our own empire ; but tea is also 

 grown in Natal x and Fiji, and there seems no reason why it 



1 The Natal tea has a peculiar flavour, and is only exported to places in 

 South Africa. 



