1601. R. Johnson, Kingd. & Commw. (1603), 216. Water mixt with a certaine precious powder which they [the Japanese] vse, they account a daintie beuerage: they call it Chia.
1625. Purchas, Pilgrims, IV. xviii. 437. They offer him ‘Chia’ to drinke. Ibid., V. xv. 524.
