Every Alderman reviewed the men of his ward, putting aside all such as had jacks, coats of plate, coats of mail, and briganders, and appointed none but such as had white harness, except such as should bear Moorish pikes.

Along the riverbanks lie enchanted old gardens, with blueberried ivy spilling over their gray stone walls.

Feminists of the era did not take kindly to Ericsson and his Marlboro Man veneer. To them, the lab cowboy and his sperminator portended a dystopia of mass-produced boys.

Meanwhile, the photography and research of Buddhist sites in the other countries of Asia was taken up. One of the most exciting journeys was two months across the length of China and from Central to Western Tibet. For long, I had heard about the Kizil Caves, next to Kucha, on the Northern Silk Route in Western China. Kucha is where Kumarajiva was born to Princess Jiva and the Kashmiri Pandit Kumarayana. He was taken to Kashmir for thirteen years by his mother, where he learnt Sanskrit and studied Buddhist scriptures. On his return, he became the most famous translator of Buddhist scriptures in Kucha. It is said that China attacked and annexed Kucha because of the importance of Kumarajiva. Today, there is a modern statue of Kumarajiva in front of the Kizil Caves. The art of the caves displays the influences coming from India in the First Millennium CE.