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National Geographic : 1910 Apr
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MUKDEN, THE MANCHU HOME Photo and Copyright by Underwood & Underwood GRINDING THE GRAIN, MANCHURIA The illustrations accompanying this article, unless otherwise indicated, are from the author, Eliza R. Scidmore across the level plain. They are the Ming tombs in miniature, noble pieces of eigh teenth century architecture and decora tion, a long series of gate towers, courts, and pavilions leading to the tower of the imperial tablet, immediately before the simple earthen mound. The brilliant colors, the red walls, green and yellow tiled roofs, rainbow bracketings, and ver milion eaves are all softened by time to the mellowest bloom and tones. There is an avenue of stone animals and guardian figures, as at the Ming tombs, and at the top of the steps of the last of the marble terraces a broad door step, a solid slab of jade (green-veined jadeite), leads to the hall of worship. Both armies respected these tombs during the war, and their venerable cedars were the only trees spared on the whole plain. The Russians did maintain an outpost at the gates and stabled horses in some of the outer green-tiled build ings, but that was taking a great risk with really fine horses, as the roofs were then leaking and leaning almost to the point of collapse. THE MANCHURIANS DID NOT SUFFER MATERIALLY BY THE WAR There are no signs of war or battle on any of this great Mukden plain, this vast Manchurian outdoors, covered with rich crops of kaoliang, beans, and corn. Only the bayonet spire on Putiloff Hill, far to southward, a Japanese memorial column, 315
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