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[[underlined]] Chapter XVI. [[/underlined]] 355.

ating in Neolithic times in eastern Asia, must have survived here, just as elsewhere in China, far down into historical times.
According to the local people whom we interrogated, the site was called the Pai Ti Ch'êng [[3 Chinese characters]], "City of the White Emperor". It dated, they told us, from the beginning of the "Three Kingdoms" period---the 3rd century A. D.

[[underlined]] Return to Peking [[/underlined]]
From K'uei-fu we returned down the Yangtze, halting at Ichang for a few days, to explore the surrounding country for ancient remains. These we found in abundance; but none seemed of outstanding importance, or particularly deserving of more intensive study later on, even should conditions permit.
We therefore soon took a steamer downriver to Hankow, and thence the semi-weekly train for Peking, where we arrived on June 23rd. Not long thereafter the rumors of impending civil war in the Yangtze valley proved only too well founded. The "Southerners" or Cantonese troops occupied most of that region, severe fighting took place, and we had once more to abandon our plans for any effective work there.