MUKDEN, THE MANCHU HOME 



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Till; EMPKROR OF CHINA, HENAN TUNG, AND HIS liAHY BROTHER 



den, built himself a greater brick palace 

 in foreign style in an incredibly short 

 space of time. The viceroy of Alan- 

 churia has been much in the lime-light 

 since 1900, and remains a conspicuous 

 satrap of the empire. 



When I saw the viceroy and his suite 

 at a Japanese fete at Tairen, whither he 

 had gone to pay a state visit, I was con- 

 vinced as never before of the common 

 origin of the North American Indian and 

 the Chinese or Manchu-Tartars. There 

 might as well have been Red Cloud, Sit- 

 ting Bull, and Rain-in-the-Face, dressed 

 in blue satin blankets, thick-soled mocca- 

 sins, and squat war bonnets with single 

 bunches of feathers shooting back from 

 the crown. Alanchu eyes, Tartar cheek 

 bones, and Mongol jaws were combined 

 in countenances that any Sioux chief 

 would recognize as a brother's. 



THE TOMBS OF THE MANCHU ANCESTORS 



The tombs of the Manchu ancestors 

 are in two great parks, the one to 'the 



north and the other to the east of the 

 city. Tung-Ling, the eastern tombs, are 

 the most extensive, the grove of gnarled 

 cedars surrounding them the oldest and 

 most impressive. In the face of all the 

 talk of ancestor worship, the sacred 

 burial place is sadly neglected, and the 

 enclosures unapproachable after an\' 

 heavy rain and often cut off from the 

 world for weeks at a time by deep mud 

 sloughs and gullied water courses un- 

 tended for a century. Any pretense at a 

 road, any vestige of the imperial high- 

 way that once existed, has long ago been 

 swept away and forgotten by Kienlung's 

 degenerate descendants, who have so 

 misruled and so nearly wrecked his em- 

 |)ire. bringing it again to the stage of 

 decadence it had reached when Confu- 

 cius strove to awaken the rulers of his 

 day. 



The Peiling, the northern mausoleum, 

 where Taitsung is buried, is less than five 

 miles from the city wall, its groves of 

 cedars and yellow-tiled roofs visible 



