Mr. Fortune travelled'up the Chientang River by boat and refers to the ing boatmen" and the "polite inn-keeper who asked us to be seated, and brought us some tea." Continu-Ing his journey, he weltes, "T now passed through the crowded stoots was in the open country. The road on which we were travelling was one of the broadest and best had met with in the country. Tt w well-paved with granite, about twelve feot in width. Lone trains of coolies Joaded with tea to be sold to the English merchants. Al along the road we found inns and teashop having smoked our pipes and paid two cash each for our tea, T got into my chair and resumed my journey."
In those days, the foreigner was Aittle known in the interior and he was looked upon as "Just one of themselves, but hailing from a. far country beyond the Great Wall." Tea plants was Mr. Fortune's quest. He Wes most successful in bringing away a large supply, which afterwards Mourished onthe slopes of the Himalayas and thus the English tea trade had its inception.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.