In Search of an Unknown Race — page 119: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

VAN. 109 recording the deeds of other dynasties; where grave looking robed priests officiated in rites that had de- scended down through generations. There were the halis and council chambers, where stood full length statues of famous warriors or statesmen of their own race, skillfully wrought in solid silver. There were the open workshops of the various arti- sans along the business street, where gold and silver were wrought into beautiful and curiousdesigns. There were the lapidaries’ shops where piles of uncut gems irom the mines and river beds of the province tay heaped up on the benches within reach of the passers by ; armorers, who by a secret process gave the hammered copper the temper of Damascus steel, and venders of rare stuffs, rivaling those of the foreign bazaars, woven in rude looms set up and worked before the eyes of the pur- chaser. EOmicdoo ‘S (E(0)