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[[underlined]] Chapter XVII. [/underlined]]  358-a.

the Chinese Neolithic period; while its close traditional---or perhaps better, legendary---association with the very nebulous "Hsia Dynasty" [[strikethrough]] (see footnote 325, above) [[/strikethrough]] suggests that traces of a very early phase of the Chinese Bronze age civilization may yet be found there. 
  The day after our arrival at Yün-ch'êng, Mr. Tung and I, leaving the faithful Kuang-lien to watch our things, set out in a