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laminated bones. These came out of tho south-western chamber, but with
thorn there was no skull or rccoguizably human bones.
107. Hero and there scattered amongst tho dust throughout the tomb were
pioccs of what appeared to mo to have been onco ivory or wood : these were found
on sifting tho baskots of dust which enmo out when the tomb was being laid
bare to tho stones of tho foundation.

108. I have retained spccimons of all these things by me, in ease they
should turn out to be of any interest.
109. Tho only thing that at all struck me aftor examination of tho tomb
was tho scattering of tho bones and tho breakage of crockery. Could tho
animal or animals, whatever they were, have been inhumed alive when tho
burrow was closed up ?

110. April Gth, 1879.—I can now give some account of the larger
mounds that I have boon ongnged upon sinco 1 wrote the above.
111. In the first placo I chose the most perfect looking of tho large tumuli,
Its present height is about 45 foot, circumfcronco 200 paces, and tho circular
mound around it 330 paces, 20 paces of level ground separate this latter circle
from the baso of tho mound, a line of wall joins tho outer circle to die base
of tho mound. I enunot from it explain tho plan of tho largo mound near the
top of which I found tho gallery. Tho two must be essentially different.

112. After losing a day or two in making pickaxes* in the bazaar, which
• There .,o only two oRrlcullurol l«l, know,, In tools WCIO nCCCSSfll'y to CUt ilWay UlO lim'd
Uvo island, tho iron crow bar with one end cliisol amalgam of Cflrth aild Hint, which had bc-
shaped. and n single handed mud scraper. Come VOry firmly Welded tOgOtllOr, WC bcgAU
work, and began at tho top and centre to sec if by workiug thcro we could
disclose anything.

113. The shape of
tho mound in its then
state, I give roughly in
the margin.

114. I made use of
my detachment of tho
21st Native Infantry
working them in relays
of a few men for a few

when sheep were forth-
coming I never saw.
They worked and joked,
.-..■r.T "J"
and had not an hour’s
sickness amongst them
during the whole time
wo wero out. Had it not.
been, howevor, for the
kindness of Captain Priuglo of Hor Majesty’s S. Vulture, who interested
nrasclf in tho work and sprang away masses of oarth over my gallery, I should
bayo found it difilcult to got to tho end of it. Tho sepoys were helped by Arab
Shiahs from “ Ali,” a broken-spirited holplcss lot, who scorned barely ablo to
carry away small baskets full of earth brokon by the picks.
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