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[[underline]] Chapter XIII. [[/underline]] 286. vestigation when a suitable opportunity offered. For in countries with cold winters, like northern China, caves often served as shelters, and even as permenent habitations; hence they not infrequently contain deposits from earlier periods. [[underline]] Gov. Yen Grants Us permission to Excavate. [[/underline]] The same evening the magistrate, Mr. Yü Han-ch'ing (see pp. 218, 225, 227), who had shown himself most friendly throughout, invited our party to dinner at his yamên. When the guests--all save ourselves either official dignitaries or else influential members of the local gentry---had assembled, our host announced, with fine dramatic effect, that Gov. Yen Hsi-shan accorded us full permission to undertake excavations in the Ta T'ung district; and that he himself would detail one of his principal subordinates to attend us and lead our enterprise official countenance and sanction. ooooo ooo o