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232 LIFE IN JAVA.
intendents in this peculiar business. The flavour of Java tea bears, however, no comparison with that of Bohea, Souchong, or Pekoe ; but whether this deficiency is attributable to a reluctance on the score of Chinamen to impart to fanquis, or strangers, the mysteries of their flavouring art, or to the difference of soil and climate, I was not in- formed.
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