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[[underlined]] Chapter VII. [[/underlined]] 117. of Ho Ch'ü-ping; I had previously known of but one there---that of the horse with a barbarian warrior struggling beneath it. [[superscript]](100) [[/superscript]] Mr. Li kindly ------------------------- (100) This interesting group was, I believe, first made known to the western world by the late Victor Segalen, who came upon it early in 1914. See the [[underlined]] J. Asiat.[[/underlined]], N.S. XI, vol. v (1915), pp. 471 [[underlined]] sqq. [[/underlined]] and plates opp. pp. 470 and 472. --------------------------- volunteered to conduct us in person in the morning to the tombs which we wished to visit. [[underlined]] Tomb of Han Wu Ti. [[/underlined]] After an early breakfast next day, accordingly, accompanied by our host in the yamên's official mule-cart, we rode back up onto the loess plateau above the city and shaped a course over it a little to the east of north. After two or three miles we began to catch glimpses of the gigantic tumulus of Han Wu Ti, known as the Mao Ling 茂陵, [[superscript]] (101) [[/superscript]] still --------------------------- (101) From the name of his tumulus, Han Wu Ti is sometimes called the "Mao Ling T'ien Tzu"; he reigned from 140 to 87 B.C. ---------------------------- a long way off. As we drew steadily nearer, riding through fields of young wheat on which were feeding numerous gangs of wild geese, we saw in the vicinity of the great mound several others, far smaller and lower. One of these, some hundreds of yards a little north of west from the Mao Ling itself, [[superscript]] (102) [[/superscript]] the magistrate pointed out to us as being the ---------------------------- (102) Chinese accounts give the distance between the two mounds as one [[underlined]] li [[/underlined]] (a little over 600 yards); we did not measure it. ---------------------------- tomb of Wu Ti's beloved concubine, Li Fu-jên 李夫人 (the Lady Li; her well-known story, with its touching incidents, we need not pause to recount here). [[superscript]] (103) [[/superscript]] Her mound, rectangular in plan, was of two stages, the ------------------------------- (103) For a brief sketch [[underlined]] cf.[[/underlined]] Giles, [[underlined]] Biogr. Dict.[[/underlined]], No. 1125. -------------------------------- second or upper one more than usually lofty in proportion to the first [[end of page]]
