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[[underlined]] Chapter XVII. [[/underlined]] 362.

posed to such iconoclastic treatment through purely mercenary motives.

[[underlined]] Visit of the Crown Prince of Sweden. [[/underlined]]

While we were at T'ai-yüan, that city received a visit from T. R. H. the Swedish Crown Prince and Princess, who arrived on Nov. 1st. A couple of days later, by invitation, I accompanied His Royal Highness and a comparatively large party, including Dr. J. G. Andersson and Dr. Axel Lagrelius (the latter the founder of the Swedish China Research Committee), to inspect a prehistoric Neolithic site about 10 miles north of T'ai-yüan, in some terraced loess fields high up on the east or left bank of the Fên River. It was that of a large village, and had been discovered some time previously by Dr. Andersson, who had been keeping it intact to show to the Crown Prince---himself a keen archaeologist, of wide experience in other lands---as an example of a Chinese Neolithic habitation-site.
  We found on it no painted pottery (possibly an indication of a somewhat early date), but abundance of potsherds---though no unbroken vessels---of that coarse gray-brown unglazed ware, with incised or impressed ornamentation, which we had so commonly found in all parts of northern China. One needle---a certain indication that sewing of some sort, whether of textiles or merely of skins or bark-cloth, had been performed by the Neolithic Chinese who had formerly dwelt here.

[[underlined]] Our Journey Northward [[/underlined]]

The following day, Nov. 4th, Mr. Tung and I, in the same little Ford motor-car and with the same chauffeur that we had had on our southward journey, set out to traverse the northern part of the province; for as already indicated [[strikethrough]] ([[underlined]] cf. [[/underlined]] page 356) [[/strikethrough]], it was part of our plan to try to visit northern Shansi and explore its opportunities in the way of inten-