I promised in my Inst letter that next I would give an account of a visit the Imperial Palace at Heianfa. common people are not allowed inside but we were permitted to go anywhere we would, and those in charge were very willing to show us round Entering by a gate from the exnal we found onrselses within a
are to be used in repairing the dragon courtyard, almost filed with bricks which pool within. the park 'Several hein: red soldiers have been working for mo: than two years to get water from a river to flow in' from the city to fill the dragon Broken down and cly. ho water bs nisse pool in the palace park, which has been
to fill the trenches round th There ave rumours that when all_these works have been carried out the Emperor will come to Flsianfu to live. This, however, is my account of the pale. From the first courtyard we pi to another, Here is t as the audience hall. On the yet another courtyard containing the ap: Tent wherein the tablets of the Empress Dowager and the Emperor lie on a table with an old-fashioned clock between them, Tu an enclosure to the left are the apartments occupied by the Emperor, while the Court was xt Hsianfa, The rooms are small and mean compared with the rest of the palace. The gardens are b-youd. the suite of rooms, ear the entrance, which wae occupied by the Empress, there were still hanging fragments of ved and yellow silk embroideriva.
The Crops.
The autumn crops are looking well, and the weather has been very pleasut.
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