Years ago as a student I was working in the Canadian forest helping the
prospectors staking claims.
We were always on the move. After supper time we always had tea. The
legendary voyageurs called that tea "thé des bois".
Water was boiled and the leave dropped over the hot water. When the leave
were at the bottom the tea was ready.
I was told that the native Amerindian were known to have harvested that tea
for centuries long before the white men. Today, I would like to get some of
that tea but no one appears to know what "thé des bois" is. I wonder if any
one know smoothing about that tea?