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Decoration inside and out in fine blue. A thin annular
line ¼″ below rim on both sides, with traces of floral orna-
ment outlined blue and washed in with lighter tone of same.
Prob. Chinese. 1⅜″×1⅜″. Gr. thickness ⅛″.

Khu. 029. Fr. of wall of pottery vessel. Buff gritty
body, glazed plain white inside, and fine Wedgwood blue
outside, probably both over thin white slip. Surface, egg-
shell glaze due probably to weathering. 2¼″×1⅜″×1⁄16″.

Khu. 031. Fr. of rim of pottery bowl. Extremely
thin ; very slightly everted lip. Painted outside in pale
blue, outlined Chinese blue. A standing Chinese figure in
long robe (?). Lower part discoloured. Chinese porcelain.
1¾″×⅜″×⅜″ nearly, at thickest part.

Khu. 033, 034, 035, 038, 042, 043. Frs. of glazed
pottery, all of same type. Body pale terra-cotta, slightly
gritty, covered inside with white slip, over which black.
Pattern scratched through black to white slip and some-
times through slip also. The whole glazed inside with pale
greenish translucent glaze ; 042 with dark green-blue.
034 and 038 are parts of rim and wall of shallow dish (?).
Glaze on these is also on outside, but edge is wiped clean
to prevent sticking in firing as in Chinese ware. Sgraffito
patterns are freely drawn scrolls and tendrils, too frag-
mentary to reconstruct.
033 and 043 have slightly darker and coarser body, are
not glazed outside, but have similar scroll patterns and
broader scalloped bands. Gr. fr. (033) 2⅜″×2⅜″×⅜″.
Pl. CXVIII.

Khu. 039, 040. Frs. of pottery bowl. Buff, gritty
body, finely glazed inside and out with pale blue-green
over thin white slip. Both frs. are from straight rim of
bowl ; decoration consists of annular line in black inside
about 3⁄16″ below lip and same outside. Below and touching
the line, on inner surface, a row of straight-sided trefoil-
tipped petals in bold black outline, and a repetition of same
in thin blue-green line, the centre point of petal falling in
the space between side foils of adjoining black petals.
Persian (?). Glaze fine and hard, and black very fine. Gr.
fr. 2⅜″×1⅜″×¼″. Pl. CXVIII.

Khu. 044. Fr. of rim (¾) of pottery bowl. Pale terra-
cotta, gritty body. Glazed both sides over thin white
slip, and painted with green and black. Decoration con-
sists of a border band of brilliant blue-green lines crossing
each other at right angles and so forming a series of squares.
The green is translucent and has spread in the colourless
glaze. A second series of squares are painted in solid black
lines placed so that corners of green squares come in centre
of black squares. Black band along outer and inner edges
of border. Outside, traces of pattern in black line. Width,
1⅜″×¼″× (thickness) 1⁄16″. Pl. CXVIII.

Khu. 045, 046, 051, 054. Frs. of pottery. Pale terra-
cotta body. Glazed greenish-blue inside, with traces of
glaze outside. Pattern in black, annular lines and formal
floral patterns. 051 and 054 show part of simple rim, prob.
of bowls, with glaze darker than other two frs. In all
glaze adheres badly. Gr. fr. (045) 1⅜″×1⁄16″. Pl. CXVIII.

Khu. 047. Fr. of pottery bowl, of similar type to
045 but with glaze dull grey and pattern dull cobalt blue.
1⅜″×1⅜″.

Khu. 050. Fr. of pottery, curved in both directions.
Pink-buff body, gritty ; glazed outside a fine turquoise
blue dulled from weathering. Traces of same glaze thinly
applied inside. 1⅜″×⅜″.

Khu. 053. Fr. of pottery bowl. Rim and part of wall.
Pale terra-cotta, gritty body, glazed both sides with grey,
uneven on outside. ⅞″×1⅜″.

Khu. 055. Fr. of pottery from wall of vessel (bowl ?).
Pale terra-cotta, gritty body. Glazed white on inside, with
pattern in cobalt, consisting of pair of annular lines and
fr. of floral (?) pattern. Traces of white glaze on outside.
1⅜″×1⅜″.

Khu. 056. Fr. of pottery, terra-cotta with boldly raised
band at one edge and part of palm-leaf pattern in relief
on lower surface. No glaze remaining ; much weathered.
1⅜″×1⅜″. Pl. CXV.

Khu. 057-9. Frs. of glass. Pale green ; 057 and 059
oxidized and the latter showing metallic lustre. Largest
fr. (057) 1⅜″×⅜″.

Section III.—INTO THE HELMAND BASIN

Through
hills from
Dastgird to
Duruh. Two marches sufficed to bring us from Dastgird, whose subterraneous drainage flows into the
same desert depression as does that of the valley of Gezik, to the oasis Duruh at the north-western
extremity of the great basin receiving the terminal course of the Helmand. Instead of keeping to
the usual caravan route, we followed the more direct track along the much broken top of the hill
chain which divides the valley of Duruh from the wide trough sloping down towards the Afghān
border. The few little patches of fields that graziers till among these rocky ridges are wholly
dependent on springs. The fact that cultivation cannot be carried on here by rain and snow-fall
only, though the range is close on 6,000 feet high, was a clear indication of the distinctly arid
climate in the wide region we had approached.
The village of Duruh, which comprises some three hundred homesteads, is situated under a bold
conical hill crowned by a small ruined fort. It forms a pleasant green oasis in the wide and other-