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[[underline]] Chapter XIII. [[/underline]] 285.

pl. xxviii, no. 50 and [[underline]] passim [[/underline]] , we find delineated cavaliers of the Han period, armed and accoutered in precisely similar fashion.  The costume and armament in both the seal and the "reliefs" were undoubtedly those of the steppe warriors of that day, and for long afterward.
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  Another object was a tiny bronze plaque showing in profile, facing the right, an Asiatic ibex (see page 275), with characteristic beard and fetlocks (pl. 28, fig. 3, lower).  Its length was 2.7 [[underline]] cm. [[/underline]] , its height 2.5 [[underline]] cm. [[/underline]]  The heavy backward curving horn (being a side-view, naturally but one was indicated), with much corrugated anterior surface, was joined at the tip to the animal's shoulder.  In spite of its diminutive size, the figure was admirably portrayed, the anatomical details being rendered boldly, yet with great fidelity to nature.
  On its reverse side the plaque bore a flat vertical loop of bronze, cast in one piece with the figure itself and measuring some 8 [[underline]] mm. [[/underline]] in width---beyond doubt intended to receive a narrow strap; we thought the object probably a decoration or perhaps amulet for a horse's headstall.  There was no trace of gilding, which indeed I do not recall having seen on any of the Ordos specimens, though it is common enough elsewhere in the Scytho-Siberian area, and not infrequently occurs on ancient Chinese bronzes also.

[[underline]] We return to Ta T'ung. [[/underline]]
  That evening we returned to Ta T'ung, feeling well repaid for our visit to Kuei-hua Ch'êng.  On the draughty and unheated train, however, both Mr. Wenley and I contracted severe colds which threatened, unless we got rid of them, to give us considerable trouble.
  Next day, Oct. 5th, Dr. Hall (see page 262) called at our inn to discuss with us the state of local feeling about our conducting excavations in the region.  He also told us of some caves in the rocky hills vi^[[s]]ible a few miles to the northeast, and which we agreed might repay in-