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[[underlined]] Chapter XI. [[/underlined]]  227.

coöperative attitude of the better educated and more broad-minded Chinese with whom we came in contact. Had the politicians with whom we had perforce to deal shown a similar spirit, the efforts of our expedition would have met with far greater success.
     On April 4th Dr. C. Li came up from Tientsin for another talk with me, as the result of which he accepted the position on our field staff that I had offered him (see page 216). He promised to join us on June 15th, when his contract with Nankai University would terminate.

[[underlined]] Visit to Ta T'ung. [[/underlined]]
   While waiting for the permits promised us by the Ministry of Education, we spent our time looking for larger and more convenient quarters for our expedition. Before we found anything suitable, however, the official documents arrived. On April 13th our party, consisting of Mr. Wenley, his Chinese teacher Mr. Wang Pai-yen [[3 Chinese characters]], Mr. Ch'iu, Mr. Tung, the latter's younger brother Kuang-lien, and myself, with a couple of attendants, left by the Peking-Suiyüan Railway for Ta T'ung.
     We arrived there late that night, and put up at a horse-inn called the Tung-hua Chan [[3 Chinese characters]], just outside the north gate of the city. [[superscript]] 215) [[/superscript]]
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[[superscript]] (215) [[/superscript]] In northern China, certain hostels are termed "horse-inns", "camel-inns", and the like, according to the particular type of animal transport that they are designed to serve.
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Early the next morning we presented ourselves at the yamên. The magistrate, Mr. Yu Han-ching^[[,]] [[strikethrough]] (see pp. 218, 225) [[/strikethrough]], was expecting us, and greeted us cordially. A man of education and culture, like most Chinese officials of the old school, and well versed in the traditional Chinese antiquarian lore, he displayed keen interest in our plans. He told us that while awaiting our arrival he had had the local histories searched, so that he might be in a position to suggest to us the places in his 

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