1892 Drinks of the world

TEA.

II.

— Early Authorities thereon — Excise Duty thereon

Introduction of Tea

into Europe

— Its Introduction into England

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— Thomas Garway's Advertisement. WHEN tea was first introduced into Europe is still an unsettled question, and the earliest mention that the writers can find (that ,is, to verify) is in a volume of Travels by Father Giovanni Pietro Maffei/ published 1588 (book vi., p. 109). Speaking of his travels in China, he says : ** Quanquam e vitibus more nostro non exprimunt merum, uvas quodam condimenti genere in hyemem adservare, mos est coeterum ex herba quadam expressus liquor admodum ^ Joannis Petri Maffeii Bergo?naHs, e Sodetate JesUy Historiarum Indicarum^ etc. Florentice^ 1588.

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