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OUTWARD from Hamburg via Ports of Call
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Tonnage, dw.
Carl Legion
9,000 ton.
7th September
Adolf von Baeyer.
9,000 tons
First half of October
Emil Kirdorf
9,000 tons
Schoor...
12,300 tons
First half of November. Fizet half of December.
HOMEWARD for Antwerp, Botterdam and Hamburg
Blain
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Tonnage, dw,
9,000 tons
9,000 tons
9,000 tons
9,000 tons
Depertor
12th Sept., Calling at Manila
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THE ROMANCE OF TEA.
STORY OF A GREAT INDUSTRY.
In the very materialistic world" of today, all trades, professions and basic nesses seera almost entirely gauged by the monetary success they bring to those con- cerned in them. So ingrained has this primary attraction and aim become that mest of us seem to have lost all touch with the romance of trade. Every trade that has its base in foreign countries has: its certain and fascinating-romance and history, some short-lived, some long-lived. Some are merely pest-war; others take us back to Roman roads and barren deserts. They have too, their heroes and martyrs. Not kust among the trades has Tea."
its history is interesting and well worth study. Auch may be gleaned from old planters of sody and Erom old works written many years ago: but stil obtai abs at the present time. According to the Tea Planters Foule Mecum (1883 edition) one learned that Tea is mention od as beverage fa a Chinese work called Pras São" written about the period 9700 H.C.; though it was not until 400 A.. that full details of the plant
its uses were compiled. Kelway Böniber, in one of his books on Tea, ndds further interesting information. We read There that another Chinese author named" "Eya "alumit the period A.D. 70 wrote short bock en tea in which he describes it as follows:-" It tempers the spirits and harmonises thu mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens! "thought and prevents drowsiness. lightens or refreshes the body and efears the per- spective faculties." As regards thu plucking and manufacture, he speaks of the plucking taking place only in the and sreund, third and fourth moons, neser in wet or even cloudy weather. The manufacture at this period consisted of the steaming of the leaves, hand-ring them, and then drying them in the su1⁄2 or over a charcoal fire in a brak pan. The whole was then powdered and made into small cakis ar lumps. These, of course, were dissolved in water later as required. It is interesting to note that it was about this time that the Chinese first levied a duty or Tea.
THE ORIGIN OF TEA.
was
A quaint Chinese legend in regärd tul
** Teu," the origin of Te" or brought to light by a Dutch traveller named Kompfer, who relates how a cét tain Bhuddhist monk, seeking to become
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aacetic, wandered from India to China. After many sleepless nights, spent in prayer and holy meditation, overcome by. fatigue he fell asleep. awakening, so penitent and annoyed was he that he immediately cut off his eye- lide and flung them away from him. At this spot there grew up two strong and flourishing tea bushes, the leaves of which, when boiled, or similarly prepared, pos sessed, when imbibed, an anti-seminolent power.
Leaving legends-behind us, we find some early Chinese pioneer about 200 B.C. either discovered or imported the plant into Japan. We can picture in those an- cient days before international exchange was even dreamt of the bartering and the tokens and gains of exchange and wage. The wily Chinese extorted from their neighbours, for the agricultural secret, much that we to-day would little dream of. Perhaps payment was made by the gift of slaves. perhaps they claimed many fishing rights and freedom of ports in: Japan, perhaps they intended part of the pries to be paid by a form of colonization. We can imagine the small boats plying between China and her near neighbours, in smooth sea and rough sea alike, the pioneers of Ensterr international trade.
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this period that our clippers ran round AGENTS for Hongkong and South China the Horn on their three, four and five months' voyage in Eastern waters as far as China or even Burma, we are not! altogether sure, Whether by exchange at some nearer port, China te was pur- chased and brought into Western markets is equally uncertain. It was not until 1881, when Chinese ports and the great river, the Yangtaze Klang, were duly opened to large sea-going ships, that a direct trade with China was really set upon a firm and regular basis, and éven then the merchant or tea buyer had on ¡many occasions to perform a hazardous. yet very interesting journey into the in- Jand tea markets, or
as they ** Hongs were called, in order to purchas his con- signment.
In regard to India, we go back to the interesting period of 1813 when British Indian merchants seriously contemplate] the wholesale introduction of Tea into India Ports were already opened and competitive enthusiasm was rife in the East against China and Japan. If tea could be grown extensively in India, then a great saving of time and transport, would be added to the financial profits. Bat it was not until 1824. that two brothers, named Bruce brought down from Upper This at Assam seed of indigenous ten, first was little thought of, eng a plan had in, the meantime been mcoted to import China bushes and seed, and also Chines skilled labour for instructive purpos Perhaps, too, the size of the leaf with its coarse appearange would not carry much in its Lavonr, though this is doubtful, as tea was, as regards English markets, still really in its infancy and fine tras and coarse teas were not a great matter of importancenglishmas (Calcutta).
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