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water-mills — Botany of the country — A valuable palm-tree — 

 Birds — Lime-kilns and green granite — Tea-plant met with — 

 The new Funereal Cypress discovered — Its beauty — How its 

 seeds were procured — Dr. Lindley's opinion of its merits — Strange 

 echo — River and land beggars — Charity . . . Page 45 



CHAPTER IV. 



City of Wae-ping — Threatened attack from boatmen — A false alarm 



— A border country and a border guard — Enter the district of 

 Hwuy-chow — The tea-plant and other crops — A Chinese play — 

 Ferry-boat and ladies — Cargo transshipped — Two coffins below 

 my bed — A mandarin's garden — Botany of the hills — A new 

 plant (B<:rl< risjapon ica) — My servant's advice — Leave the boat — 

 The opium-smoker outwitted — Town of Tun-che — Its importance 

 in connection with the tea-trade — Features of country, soil, and 

 productions — First view of Sung-lo-shan .... 67 



CHAPTER V. 



Sung-lo-shan — Its priests and tea — Its height above the sea — Rock 

 formation — Flora of the hills — Temperature and climate — 

 Cultivation of the tea-shrub — Mode of preserving its seeds — The 

 young plants — Method of dyeing green teas — Ingredients employed 



— Chinese reason for the practice — Quantity of Prussian blue and 

 gypsum taken by a green-tea drinker — Such teas not used by 

 the Chinese — Mr. Warrington's observations ... 86 



CHAPTER VI. 



My reception in the house of Wang's father — A smoky Chinese 

 cottage — My coolie and the dwarf — The dangers to which they 

 had been exposed — Chinese mode of warming themselves on a 

 cold day — Tea-seeds, &c, obtained — Anecdote of the new 

 Berheris — Obtain some young plants of it — Deceitful character 

 of the Chinese — Leave the far-famed Sung-lo-shan — Wang tries 

 to cheat the chairmen — Invents a story of a " great general " — 

 Leave Tun-che — Mountain scenery — Pleasure of going down the 

 river— Gale of wind amongst the mountains — Arrive at Nechow — 

 Shaou-hing-foo — Tsaon-o — Tak-wan — Arrive at Xing-po . 96 



