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[[underlined]] Chapter VI. [[/underlined]] 115.

We were just sitting down to supper in the courtyard when we were surprised by the sudden and quite unexpeted apparition of my old friend Mr. Langdon Warner, of the Fogg Museum at Cambridge, Massachusetts, garbed as a Chinese carter or muleteer. He was returning, we learned, from a long journey to Mongolia and western Kansu upon he and his companion Mr. Horace H. F. Jayne had set out several months previously; [[superscript]](97)[[/superscript]] Mr.
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(97) Mr. Warner has written delightfully of this journey in his book, "The Long Old Road in China".
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Jayne, we knew, had already returned to Peking by another route. 
We enjoyed [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[[a pleasant]] chat with Mr. Warner, in the course of which he told us, among many other things of interest, that he had been able to confirm, by personal observation, the statements made by the historian Ssŭ-ma Ch'ien about the existence in Central Asia of "blood-sweating" horses. [[superscript]](98)[[/superscript]] We invited Mr. Warner to join us next morning on
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(98) [[underlined]] Shih-chi [[/underlined]], ch. 123, page 2-b (also [[underlined]] passim [[/underlined]]); the particular passage cited runs, "In Ta Yüan 大宛 [[[underlined]] i.e. [[/underlined]], Ferghana].....are horses which sweat blood and are descended from the Heavenly Horse" 馬汘血其先天馬子也
This exudation of blood is really caused by a nematode, [[underlined]] Parafiliaria multipapillosa [[/underlined]], which occurs under the skin and produces slight haemorrhages.
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our proposed visit to the tombs of the great Han emperor Wu Ti and his brilliant young cavalry general Ho Ch'ü-ping 霍去病. Naturally anxious, however, to lose as little time as possible in getting back to the United States after his long absence, he felt obliged to decline. We therefore wished him a cordial [[underlined]] Aufwiedersehen [[/underlined]], and he returned to the inn where he had left his animals.
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