It Continued In This Desolate Condition Till About Eighteen Years
Ago, When The Walls Of The Present Town Were Built By The Governor Of
Ting-Hai, As A Strong-Hold For A Garrison, In Order To Expel Some
Pirates Who Had Taken Shelter On The Island.
As the island began to grow
populous, a chumpeen was sent to govern it for three years, to whom
the late chumpeen succeeded, who continued till last April, and procured
licence to open this port to strangers.
On the last chumpeen being
promoted to the government of Tien-ching-wei[330] near Pekin, he was
succeeded by the present governor, who is son to the old chumpeen of
Emoy. They have no arts or manufactures in this island, except lacquered
ware; the particulars of which I cannot as yet send you. They have begun
to plant mulberry-trees, in order to breed up silk-worms for the
production of raw silk; and they gather and cure some tea, but chiefly
for their own use.
[Footnote 330: Probably that called Tien-sing in modern maps, on the
river Pay, between Pekin and the sea. - E.]
Sec.3. Of the Manner of cultivating Tea in Chusan.
The three sorts of tea usually carried to England are all from the same
plant, their difference being occasioned by the soils in which they
grow, and the season of the year at which they are gathered. The
bohea, or vo-u-i, so called from certain mountains in the province
of Token,[331] where it is chiefly made, is the very bud, gathered in
the beginning of March, and dried in the shade.
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