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WANDERINGS IN CHINA. Chap. XVIII. 
CHAPTER XVIII. 
Tea-plants, &c., taken to Hong-kong — Shipped for India — I sail 
again for the North — Safe Arrival of Tea-plants in India — Means 
taken in China to engage Tea-manufacturers — I visit Chusan — 
My Lodgings — A Mandarin who smoked Opium — His Appear- 
ance at Daylight — A Summer Morning in Chusan — An Emperor's 
Edict — City of Ting-hae — Poo-too, or Worshipping Island — 
Ancient Inscriptions in an unknown Language — A Chinese caught 
fishing in the Sacred Lake — He is chased by the Priests — The 
sacred Nelumbium — My Holidays expire — Collections of Tea- 
seeds and Plants made — Return to Shanghae — Tea manufac- 
turers engaged — We bid adieu to the North of China. 
In the month of August the weather was excessively 
hot. As exposure to the sun at this time of the year is 
attended with great danger, and as I had some hard 
work before me in the autumn, I did not wish to run 
the risk of being laid up with fever. I therefore re- 
mained quietly under Mr. Beale's hospitable roof until 
the end of September. 
In October and November I procured a large supply 
of tea-seeds and young plants from Hwuy-chow, and 
from various parts of the province of Chekiang. These 
were all brought to Shanghae in order to be prepared 
and packed for the long voyage to India. When they 
