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[[underlined]] Chapter III. [[/underlined]] 50. than the more developed forms just mentioned as seen at the yamên; for the use of these two types of bit may quite well have overlapped in China. That country teems with "survivals" of all sorts and from various ages, existing side by side; for instance, pairs of wooden barnacles are still sometimes used there to control unruly donkeys and pack-horses ([[underlined]] cf. [[/underlined]] pl. 12, fig. 2). [[underlined]] Reported Find of Jade Ornaments. [[/underlined]] A report gained currency later that in the course of their digging, the workmen had unearthed a stone coffer filled with ornaments of carved and polished jade. This find, it was said, they had concealed and had later sold piecemeal to dealers in antiques. If there be any truth in the account (and it contains nothing inherently impossible), it may have been from this source that those jades were obtained which we saw subsequently in certain shops in Peking, and which we were told came from Hsin Chêng; for these bore no indication of having been in direct and prolonged contact with the earth. On the other hand, the story may quite well have been invented and circulated by the dealers in order to give their wares a factitious value; for the discovery at Hsin Chêng Hsien had begun to attract wide interest, both in China and abroad. [[underlined]] Cowry Shells. [[/underlined]] The workmen told us that in their digging they had encountered hundreds of cowry shells, some inside the bronze vessels while others had been embedded in the surrounding earth. The only ones that I actually saw, however, were those about the skull (see page 31). As shells of [[underlined]] Cypraea moneta [[/underlined]] appear to have had a high value in Shang times (28), their ----------------- (28) See Creel, [[underlined]] op. cit. [[/underlined]], ppl. 92 [[underlined]] sq. [[/underlined]] ----------------------------- abundance in the middle of the Chou period would seem to indicate that
