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[[underline]] Chapter VIII.  [[underline]]  150.

seal.  Practically all the objects found had been sold to dealers in antiques; but the mention of the seal led Mr. Ch'iu to surmise that a local magistrate had been buried in the tomb.  Such an individual however, it may be noted, would scarcely have been called a [[underline]] wang [[underline]]---a title applied during Han times to territorial princes holding directly of the sovereign emperor.  All our informants agreed that when opened, the sepulchral chamber had been found completely filled with earth. [[superscript]] (153) [[/superscript]]
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[[superscript]] (153) [[/superscript]] See pages 42 [[underline]] sq. [[underline]] and 181 on a similar condition that we found existing in ancient Chinese tombs elsewhere.
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  It is perhaps interesting to note that while all direct record or even tradition regarding the interment at the Wang Fên Wa had been lost, folk-memory still invested the locality with uncanny qualities.  The local peasantry refused, as we learned later, to stay overnight there; and the herdboys who sometimes fell asleep while grazing their buffaloes and cattle in the vicinity of the tomb declared that often they were awakened by buffets from unseen hands.

[[underline]] Reconnaissance near Yu Ho Chên. [[underline]]
The following morning, May 22nd, we set out on foot to inspect the Wang Fên Wa, together with such other archaeological possibilities as the locality might offer.  Accompanied by a group of our new friends, we first walked nearly 300 yards due north of the little walled town, to a low but rather extensive mound (pl. [[strikethrough]] LXIII) [[/strikethrough]] ^[[28, fig. 1)]] in the midst of ricefields which peasants were preparing for planting.  East and south of it were shallow artificial ponds; while on its southern boarder were two tree-embowered farmsteads, built about central courts used as yards.  At the east was a modern brick-kiln, still in use; while on the western end of the mound was growing a crop of barley almost ready for