Excerpt from Popular Treatise on Tea: Its Qualities and EffectsArabian merchant, who wrote an account of his travels about the year ad. 850.The Chinese legend relates That a pious hermit who, in his watchings and prayers, had often been overtaken by sleep, so that his eyelids closed, in holy wrath against the weakness of the ¿esh, cut them off and threw them on the ground. But a god caused a tea shrub to spring out of them, the leaves of which...
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