...very remote periods. Tradition speaks of it as early as the third century. The legend relates "that a pious hermit who in his watchings and prayers had...flesh, cut them off and threw them on the ground. Bnt a god cansed a tea shrub to spring ont of them, the leaves of which exhihit the form of an eyelid...

...cracca) still marks the former abode of the Norwegian colonists in Greenland." ..." An old Chinese legend narrates : A pious hermit, who in his watchings and...often been overtaken by sleep, so that his eyelids had closed, in holy wrath against the weakness of the flesh, cast them oft' and threw them on the ground....

...very remote periods. Tradition speaks of it as early as the third century. The legend relates " that a pious hermit, who, in his watchings and prayers,...off and threw them on the ground. But a god caused a tea-shrnb to spring out of them, the leaves of which exhibit the form of an eye-lid bordered with lashes,...

...quantity of carefully-packed dried the chiness green leaves, were presented to a Russian Em- tea. bassy in China, in return for their gifts of splendid sable...lashes, and possess the gift of hindering sleep." At the period when the Europeans first became acquainted with it, it was already spread generally over...

...very remote periods. Tradition speaks of it as early as the third century. The legend relates, " that a pious hermit, who, in his watchings and prayers,...with lashes, and possess the gift of hindering sleep. A similar story is related concerning the introduction of coffee into Arabia. Both legends were probably...

...very remote periods. Tradition upcaks of it as early as the third century. The legend relates "that a pious hermit who in his watchings and prayers had often been overtaken by sleep, so that hi* eyelids closed, in holy wrath against the weakness of the flesh, cnt them off and threw them on...

...the third century. The legend relates, " that a pious hermit, who, in his watchings and prayers, bad often been overtaken by sleep, so that his eyelids...with lashes, and possess the gift of hindering sleep. A similar story is related concerning the introduction of coffee into Arabia. Both legends were probably...

...practice of' scenting teas is very origin of it with the graces of fable. The legend relates that " a pious hermit, who, in his watchings and prayers,...the ground. But a god caused a tea-shrub to spring oat of them, the leaves of which exhibit the form of an eyelid bordered with lashes, and possess the...

...beverage, have interwoven the origin of it with the graces of fob* The legend relates that "& P¡ouj hermit, who, in his watchings and prayers, had often been overtaken by sleep, so that Lis eyelids closed, m holy wrath against the weakness of the flesh, cut them off, oud threw them on...

...very remote periods. Tradition speaks of it as early as the third century. The legend relates, "that a pious hermit, who, in his watchings and prayers,...with lashes, and possess the gift of hindering sleep. A similar story is related concerning the introduction of coffee into Arabia. Both legends were probably...