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CHAPTER VIIT. 
Leave Ning-po for the Bohea Mountains — My Guides — A Flag 
and its History — The Green Elver again — Spring Scenery on 
its Banks — Yen-chow and Ta-yang — A Storm in a Creek — 
Boatwomen — A Chinese Mrs. Caudle and a Curtain Lecture — 
Natural Productions — Funereal Cypress and other Trees — Our 
Boat seized for Debt and the Sail taken away — A Chinese 
Creditor — Town of Nan-che — Its Houses, Gardens, and Trade 
— Vale of Nan-che — Productions and Fertility — City of Chu- 
chu-foo — Moschetoes and Moscheto " Tobacco " — Arrive at 
Chang-shan. 
I WAS not quite satisfied with the result of my journey 
up the river Min. Although one of my men had brought 
me a fine collection of tea-plants and seeds from the 
celebrated black-tea country, and although the expe- 
dition was planned so that he could scarcely have pro- 
cured them elsewhere had he wished to deceive me, I 
confess I felt that it would be much more satisfactory if 
I could visit the district myself I did not like the idea 
of returning to Europe without being perfectly certain 
that T had introduced the tea-plant from the best black- 
tea districts of China into the Government plantations 
in the north-western provinces of India. There may 
also have been a lingering desire to cross the Bohea 
mountains and to visit the far-famed Woo-e-shan. At 
all events I made up my mind to make another attempt, 
