[124] In September, 1890, a small parcel of Flowering Pekoe fetched, at public sale, 36s. per lb., and this price has been largely exceeded on former occasions.
“A parcel of tea from the Oriental Bank Estates Company’s Havilland Estate in Ceylon was sold at auction in Mincing Lane yesterday for £17 per lb., or over one guinea an ounce.”—Standard, May 6th, 1891.
“A small lot of Golden Tip Ceylon tea from the Gartmore Estate was sold by auction in Mincing Lane yesterday to the Mazawattee Ceylon Tea Company at £25 10s. per lb.”—Standard, May 8th, 1891.
[125] Messrs. Wm. Jas. and Hy. Thompson.
[126] Joannis Petri Maffeii Bergomatis, e Societate Jesu, Historiarum Indicarum, etc. Florentiæ, 1588.
[127] Delle Cause della grandezza delle Città, etc., del Giovanni Botero. Milano, ed. 1596, p. 61.
[128] Divers Voyages et Missions du P. Alexandre de Rhodes, en la Chine, & autres Royaumes de l’Orient, etc. Paris, 1653, p. 49.
[129] Catharine of Braganza, wife of Charles II.
[130] Portugal.
[131] The Works of Thomas Brown, ed. 1708, vol. iii., p. 86.