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red plaster. The only object in the room, aside from a number of old beams dragged in for safe keeping, was a huge stone throne. The thing was never meant for a man, as the seat was three feet above the ruined platform on which it stood, and at least six feet long and four broad. The edge of the arms and back were decorated with carved dragon, and each arm had two panels of stone inside and two out and the back seven inside and seven out, on which inscriptions might have been written but were not. Most of the dais and the front of the chair were chipped off, apparently partly by weather. Back of this hall, and accessible only through it, was a court, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [[fifty yards lon is xxed out]] a hundred yards long, surrounded on three sides by what had been a two-storied pavilion with shrines to the various deities of the Buddhist hell. At least the few remaining mud images in the ruin looked as though they belonged to the traditional purgatory. In the central hall, just back of the main hall, there were still two wooden figures in good conditions and another in the ruins of the roof that lay about him. What this may have been I do not know.
Of two halls that stood once in front of the brick temple there is nothing left but the foundations. Old bell and drum towers stand among fine old silver pines in the corners of the inclosure. An old iron censer is dated 1792. I shall search for more data. We went out to the garden which stood to the north of the temple, a beautiful rockery, from which several houses and long since completely disappeared, and began to think of going back to the place of our abode. 

There is a long canal, by which the emperor came by boat to this temple and the gardens, an and between the wall and the canal are small artificial hills. We crossed these and came to a place that looked as though we could get over the wall right, jumped up, saw a couple police on the other side, and jumped down again. We went further, and when we looked again one of the police was coming our way to investigate. When we looked the third time, he started running towards us waving his sword. We decided there was no hope on that side, so crossed the park between the two hills, to the east side, where we got over without being observed. We circled the wall to the north and set out across country by way of a sunken road.