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[[underline]] CHAPTER XII.  MARKING TIME. [[/underline]]

[[underline]] We find more Commodious Quarters. [[/underline]]

  Immediately after our return to Peking we resumed our search for more commodious quarters for our expedition.[[strikethrough]](see page 225). [[/strikethrough]] On April 25th we decided to rent the premises at 19 Ta Yang I-pin [[4 Chinese characters]] Hutung, belonging to our friend Mr. Kungpah King.  Situated in the south-eastern part of Peking, not far from the famous old Observatory, these comprised a large two-storeyed house of gray brick, gardens planted with trees, shrubs, and flowers, and, most important of all from our point of view, ample space for storage, dark-room, draughting-room, and offices, in addition to living-quarters for ourselves. Time showed our choice to have been a most happy one.

[[underline]] Search for Neolithic Remains at Peitaiho.[[/underline]]
  Of the hindrances that we had encountered during our investigations at Peitaiho the preceding summer (see Chapter X), the most serious had been the manner in which so much of the surface, even quite close to the beach, had been masked at that season by growing crops, especially of kao-liang or "giant millet". [[superscript]] (224) [[/superscript]]   I had feared at that time that
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[[superscript]] (224) [[/superscript]]  Kao-liang ([[underline]] Andropogon sorghum [[/underline]]) is now a principal crop in North China and much of Manchuria, and is grown to some extent in most other parts of China also. According to general belief, it reached China, through India (Africa was pretty certainly the original center of distribution), only in post-Christian times. The late Dr. Laufer, for example, once told me that in his opinion its introduction took place about the 6th century A.D. Tending to confirm this view is the fact that kao-liang seems not to be mentioned (under its present name at least) in the earlier Chinese literature.
     On the other hand, Professor A. S. Hitchcock, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, has identified certain carbonized grains obtained at one of our later excavations, in southwestern Shansi (see page 396), as those of [[underline]] Sorghum vulgare. [[/underline]]  If, as appears certain, these occurred [[underline]] in situ [[/underline]] in a Neolithic deposit, they would indicate for kao-liang in China a considerably greater antiquity than 

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