THE LITTLE TEA BOOK 



THE ORIGIN OF TEA 



DAKMA, third son of Koyuwo, 

 King of India, a religions 

 high priest from Siaka (the 

 anthor of that Eastern paganism 

 about a thousand years before the 

 Christian era), coming to China, to 

 teach the way of happiness, lived a 

 most austere life, passing his days in 

 continual mortification, and retiring 

 by night to solitudes, in which he 

 fed only upon the leaves of trees and 

 other vegetable productions. After 

 several years passed in this manner, 

 in fasting and watching, it happened 



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