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U14V|\1V0 U/U1IU *» LLU llj iUlU3« U UVliJtVJ*Smuggling or Authority.—If the following paragraph is correct, the morality of the new Bengal Government, and of Herr Gutzlaff, appears to be of a questionable kind. The smuggling of tea plant alone is a sufficiently audacious procedure, but part of their design appears to have been to carry off a few gardeners as well, though nothing is said as to their success in this particular. Suppose they had been shot like strange lurchers in a deer park;—what could our government have’ said or done in the matter?—“ A Mr. G. is sent on here by the Bengal Government to get tea-seeds, tea-plants, and Chinese to growthem. I have got him 120 very fine plants Pekoe, Bohea, andHyson, to begin with. He went up the coast in a fast vessel, the Fairy, a little east of the port of Amoy, where a deep bay goes well into the bottom of the Anchoi Hills. Embarked in a long boat with Mr. Gutzlaff, a German missionary, an officer from the Fairy, and a Chinese guide, they landed, marched two days* journey inland, was (as long as his dollars lasted) carried in sedan chairs, got the seed of Ancoi tea, and saw the treatment of the plant; came back, most kindly used, and nearly made the fortune of his Chinese guide by allowing himself to be shown as a show for six cash each visitor.”
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London Old England
London, Middlesex, GB
Mon, Apr 13, 1835
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