The Spell of China

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These lines are crossed by others carrying the im- ports, or the local trade. As one sees these heavily laden, perspiring' and plodding slaves, he recalls those figures estimated by modern scientists as the number of workers enlisted by Egyptian kings when they built their pyra- mids. Hankow is in about the same latitude as New Orleans or Alexandria, Egypt. The sum- mers are hot and the days of the tea harvest al- most warm enough it seems to "fire" the tea, which is cured by other means in the... great re- ceiving plants. Here a Chinese compradore, in charge of perhaps a thousand coolies, told me of the origin of tea. It is a well-known fact that it was used at a very early date by the Bud- dhist monks whose eyes would become weary at night, and who might have missed their noc- turnal devotional exercises but for deep draughts of the hot beverage ; but I had never heard of the miraculous beginnings of the fra- grant shrub, which ii, seems had to do with o as o o o China's Triple Heart 215 Daruma, an Indian saint.

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