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The Crimson seconds dropped another game, yesterday when they were outhit, outpitched, and outfielded by the strong Worcester Academy nine at Worcester. The schoolboys took a liking to the offerings of Nash, lately demoted from the University squad, and pummelled his delivery for ten solid hits and four earned runs in seven innings. Cotter, who relieved him, yielded two more hits and two runs in the eighth, making the final score 6 to 1.
Piper, the Worcester pitcher, was master of the situation throughout. He al- spectacular work. The Indian traders had used this trade-route for centuries, and we found many of their original holy books, written on long paper scrolls, in the original Sanskrit, or translated by medieval scholars into Chinese or Turki. It was significant because of the light it shed on the influence these traders, straggling periodically over the mountain passes, had on the art of the early Chinese.
Had to Dig for Water
"We turned from this trade-route at its western end and followed the Black River north until it became so low that we had to dig in its bed to get water. After several days of most arduous travelling, we reached Edsina, the famous town where Marco Polo prepared for his forty-day hike to the palace of the Great Khan at Kara Korum. One of the strange encroachments of the desert has left the town deserted now, but its huge walls stand up 35 feet in the air, making a picturesque sight with their weathered, unbaked bricks. The remains of the bastion form a particularly good example of medieval fortification. We did a great deal of digging here, unearthing a lot of stucco sculpture, with the color still fresh, a magnificent bronze mirror, and some very good fragments of fresco-work."
When the reporter asked Mr. Warner if he had any excitement on his trip, he replied, "Why, the most thrilling adventure I can imagine is to peel off plaster and paint from the wall of a shrine and find these fascinating paintings behind. Of course, most of them mean little to me; an expedition like this would have to have had scholars in every field of science and language, in order to appreciate each 'find" at its true value.
Meets 20 Cent Murderers
"To be sure, however," he added, "we did have a lot of thrills of the kind you mean. The provinces of Honan, Chensi and Chansi are infested with rascally bandits, discharged soldiers, especially around Loyang. In the western provinces, the bandits are no less numerous, but here they are Mohammedans who are called Chanto, or turban-people, by the Chinese. Any one of these would stick you in the back for 20 cents, but they are a rough, genial sort, and are a problem to the Chinese in Kansu. Around the Yellow River and Huang Ho, Field Marshal Wu Bel Fu rules with an iron hand, yet he asked me to wait three days before continuing my journey, so that he could warn the bandits to let me alone.
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