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[[underlined]] Chapter XIII. [[/underlined]]  273.
                                       
the Chinese province of Shensi, bordered on three sides by the great northern bend of the Huang Ho or Yellow River and on the fourth by the Great Wall. [[superscript]] (245) [[/superscript]] This territory was claimed during the early historical
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[[superscript]] (245) [[/superscript]] The very descriptive Chinese name for the Ordos country is Ho T'ao [[2 Chinese characters]], literally "Within the River", or "River-encircled". The word [[underlined]] ho [[/underlined]], without a qualifying adjective, is often applied specifically to the Huang Ho---the river [[underlined]] par excellence.[[/underlined]]
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period by the much dreaded Hsiung-nu. That it was the latter who had made some, at least, of the bronze objects that we found in the local antique-shops seemed fairly certain. These objects we shall now briefly describe.

[[underlined]] Bronze Daggers. [[/underlined]]
    All the bronze daggers were cast in one piece, both blade and hilt, and were double-edged. In other respects, however, they fell into two quite distinct classes. In one of these the total length of the weapon rarely exceeded around 15 [[underlined]] cm. [[/underlined]], and the blade, very broad at the base, tended to assume the shape of an equilateral triangle; as far as form went, indeed, it might have been a direct derivative of the primitive copper (or even flint) dagger---the ultimate ancestor of all weapons of the "sword" class. [[superscript]] (246) [[/superscript]] The hilt, on the contrary, was quite sophisticated, 
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[[superscript]] (246) [[/superscript]] The triangular dagger, whether of flint or of copper, is well represented in certain parts of the Occident, but seems not to occur in eastern Asia.
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being exactly like that seen on the common type of Chinese bronze sword. Cylindrical in form, its middle section was surrounded by annular flanges set transversely to the weapon's major axis and parallel to a broad flattened disc which occupied the place of a pommel (pl. [[strikethrough]] CVII). ^[[CIX).]] ^[[38]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[[39, fig. 2).]]
    The other class of dagger here was both rather more advanced in type and somewhat longer---between 20 and 25 [[underlined]] cm. [[/underlined]] over all. The blade, stiffened by a rudimentary midrib, was straight and much more slender,