国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
『東洋文庫所蔵』貴重書デジタルアーカイブ

scale of 4 miles to 1 inch by cartographical data drawn from the 'Maps of India
and Adjacent Countries' published by the Survey of India on the same scale.
The methods followed in the plane table work along our routes were the same
as adopted during my travels in Chinese Turkestān.⁴ The extent of the survey
work done on the journeys on Persian ground, of which the first took us from
the extreme south-east of Persian Makrān through Balūchistān to Kermān, and
the second thence south to Mīnāb at the mouth of the Persian Gulf and along
its forbidding coast as far as Bushire, may be judged from the aggregate march-
ing distances amounting to more than 2,400 miles. Muhammad Ayūb Khān's
help proved equally valuable for the numerous plans of sites and ruins which
had to be prepared.

On the first of those journeys and on the tours in the Panjāb which preceded
it, I enjoyed the advantage of a competent scholarly assistant in the person of
Dr. C. L. Fábri, a zealous young archaeologist from the Kern Institute of Leiden
University. Prepared by prolonged study of Indian antiquities under that dis-
tinguished Indologist, Professor J. Ph. Vogel of Leiden University, and gifted
with a keen eye and skilful hand, Dr. Fábri rendered very useful help in super-
vising excavations, examining whatever objects they brought to light, and keep-
ing notes of all that presented special interest. After our return from that
journey to London he was engaged for five months at the British Museum on
the arrangement of the collection and the careful site-marking of all the objects
comprised in it, including thousands of ceramic remains, before he returned to
his post at Leiden. It is earnestly to be wished in the interest of research that
Dr. Fábri may be offered before long an opportunity of sharing in the direction of
systematic excavations at some of the great prehistoric sites of north-western
India, a task for which he is exceptionally qualified.

It has been my aim in this volume to offer a comprehensive account both of
the work in the field and of the antiquities recovered in the course of it. As my
time has since been occupied on two fresh expeditions I should not have been able
to prepare this account but for the devoted expert assistance received from my
old artist friend Mr. F. H. Andrews, in the study and description of the antiquities
temporarily deposited at the British Museum. Those who have had occasion to
consult his descriptive Lists of Antiques in the volumes of Ancient Khotan,
Serindia, and Innermost Asia will be able to assess the great value of the pains-