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[[underlined]] Chapter IX. [[/underlined]] 189-a.

elsewhere, and permit the much needed rains to descend on their parched fields.  The matter is perhaps worth relating, as affording an excellent illustration of the manner of thinking and the mental outlook of a great part of the people with whom we had to deal.
  On the evening of June 7th the local gentry tendered our party a farewell banquet, and we parted from them on most cordial terms.  Next morning we set out for Peking, and arrived there on the 9th, without incident.

[[underlined]] The Porcelanous Ware. [[/underlined]] 
  As already stated, at both the Wang Fên Wa [[strikethrough]] (page 163) [[/strikethrough]] and the Lei Ku T'ai [[strikethrough]] (page 185) [[/strikethrough]] we found examples of a hitherto unknown type of Han pottery, apparently ancestral to true porcelain or chinaware.  They seemed moreover to belong to a rather earlier stage of development than those from the Wei River valley (in Shensi) described by the late Dr. Laufer as "porcelanous ware" and tentatively ascribed by him to the period immediately following the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty---roughly the middle or latter part of the 3rd cen-