The irrigation system put in by the International Famine Rellet Association and the Provincial authorities was now spread below us like a map, ils three canals fed by the Ching Ho stretching far across the plain and obviously benefitting the sell. Land far removed from the canals looked dry and forlorn, though a little rain of a week previously had given the winter wheat a freshening appearance, In a short while we were over Sian with its walls and gate towers 30 re-minis cent of Peking, and as we came! down to earth the strains of "Old Folks at Home" could be heard coming from the band stationed near the hangars, where crowds were assembled. to "welcome back the Genferalissimo and his party. They had town 1,000 miles on a triangular course over dificult and dangerous country. They had learned "much that they had not known before, and they came Lack with knowledge of rear value to them when it comes to consideration of the problems of this remote part of Chi On the following day, Sunday, an carly slat was made in cars for the tom! e Fepresentatives of the Han and Chow Dynasties. All around the horizon of this city, great tumuli: appear, most of them pyramidical in form, though with fatter tops than che Egyptian variety, yet looking just as large in bulk if-not in height Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, however, these a made' of loess earth and ne ihe wear and tear of the elements for centuries and can continue extant for centuries more if some natural calnity does not overtake them and if vandal hands are kept ire them, as now Is possible The visitors first went to the gre tomb of Emperor Wu Ti, of the Hi dynasty, and then to thet of famous soldier, Genera! Ho Chu-ping, of the same period, whose adventures as a cavalry" lea field of battle, extending almes. into Europe, are tamed Ju tislors and chronicled song and embodied in dram Later they visited the tombs of Linperor Wu-wang, his son Emperor Wen-wang, und his brotte> Chow-kun, at the Chow Dynasty, wadi still have their buildings intact, as well che" wall "around them. Many other tombs were paren, but the party was unable visit those of the 'Tang Lynasty owing to lack of! lime. Good' ear roads now enable visitors to reach the most important sinhs, and for that. contribution §10 speed and comfort Mr. Chang Chi and. his Society for the Preservation of Old Culture in the North-west have tobe thanked, That the National Government now showing respectful solicitude for the remains of the Chinese great whose bones lie in this cradle of Chinese culture is something upon which they are to be congratulated. Tt will serve a great purpose, for when the railway is opened to Sian certain that this scene of so much historical interest, with its wealth of famed tablets and scenes, and its atmosphere of ancient grand ure, will attract thousands of cultured Chinese who hitherto have been unable to make the song and arduous journey. Cars have to be ferried across the Wei Ho, on barges with prows turned like' those fabled ones of Egypt, but it is not an arduous process, though it takes a little time. But what is time in this ancient region of buried Emperors and historic appeal?
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