"Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good."

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Source : Robert Fortune (1853). “Two visits to the tea countries of China and the british tea plantations in the Himalaya”, p.72

Robert Fortune

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“Every tounge bit had another word to say.”
“But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against the might of a world as remote and alien and pulseless as the abysses of space.”

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