Satisfaction Guaranteed 100% secure using SSL encryption and data encryption 100% quality guarantee 15 day no questions refund Refund for any shipping damage Pay withTea was first introduced to Portuguese priests and merchants in China during the 16th century, at which time it was termed chá. The earliest European reference to tea, written as Chiai, came from Delle navigationi e viaggi written by a Venetian, Giambattista .Tea production in Ceylon increased dramatically in the 1880s and by 1888 the area under cultivation exceeded that of coffee, growing to nearly 400,000 acres (1,619 km 2) in 1899. The only Ceylonese planter to venture in to tea production at the early stage was Charles Henry de Soysa