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[[underlined]] Chapter XIV. [[/underlined]]   303.

a younger contemporary of the Grand Empress Dowager Wên Ming, and the same who in 494 A.D. moved the North Wei capital from P'ing Ch'êng, in the present Shansi, to Lo-yang, in what is now Honan. (see page 219).
   At a distance of a mile or more still farther in the same general direction---a little east of north---we saw what appeared to us from a distance to be yet a third mound, smaller still and seeming to offer no features of particular interest.

[[underlined]] Return to the Village. [[/underlined]]
      It was now growing too dark to see; so by the light of a flaming red-and-gold sunset we made our way back to our quarters in the village temple. There we found awaiting us Mr. Wang Pai-yen, with the cart and our camp-equipment. It was so cold that I had a charcoal brazier brought in; but its fumes were so suffocating---although my Chinese companions seemed not to notice them---that I soon ordered it taken out again.
    After supper some villagers paid us a call, and we had an interest-ing conversation. They told us, for example, that every spring a party of Mongol tribesmen visited the Fang Shan plateau to offer sacrifices and worship at the great burial-mound known locally (though erroneously) as that of the old empress Ch'i Huang Mu (regarding her, see note 240, on page 261), whom they regarded as their ancestress. [[superscript]] (272) [[/superscript]]
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[[superscript]] (272) [[/superscript]] This statement is of decided interest as indicating that the modern Mongols, or at least part of them, regard themselves as the descendants of the ancient Toba Tartars. See page 219 and note 200; also page 262.
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     About 7 o'clock, guided by a local lad in sheepskins and bearing an oiled-paper lantern, there appeared out of the darkness before our quarters a group of ten laborers, with digging-tools and carrying-baskets, whom Mr. Tung had engaged in Ta T^[[']]ung; for we intended to put matters to the test in the morning.