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of theplace by Lieutenant Macleod was received with the photograph, from 

 Mr. R. Hughes-Buller, Superintendent, Imperial Gazetteer, Baluchistan. 



Pandran is a pretty place on a basin of the hills with plenty of 

 water from two springs on the west. The village, which contains five 

 or six Banniah shops and about fifty houses, is situated round an 

 elevated rock known as Anbir. There is much cultivation and plenty 

 of trees. 



Due west of the village at a distance of about a quarter of a mile 

 is an extraordinai-y cave situated in the skirt of the hill. All the 

 ground round is rolling and in the side of one of the folds is a hole just 

 big enough for a large man to squeeze through. It is said that this 

 hole was uncovered and exposed to view by a flood or erosion of the 

 ground some 50 or 60 years ago. On entering the hole, which is almost 

 in the centre, one finds oneself in an underground vault consisting of a 

 front chamber and two recesses. The breadth of the chamber is about 

 18 feet and the length to the back of each recess about 16 feet. The 

 recesses are round with domed roofs; the front chamber also has a 

 domed roof. Thus : — 



Fig. 1. 



Fig. 2. 

 Section of right-hand recess. 



The whole appears to have been hewn out of the conglomerate rock. 

 At the left-hand corner of the centre partition is a heap of bones and 

 with this exception there is nothing in the left-hand recess. 



In the right-hand recess a niche has been cut out of the rock about 

 6' x 3' x 3'. In it there are twenty-five skulls, one of them is a small 

 one and appears to be that of a child. The rest appear to be those of 

 adults. There are also the ribs and leg-bones of a child down to the 

 knees. In the centre of the right-hand recess lies a bed which, accord- 

 ing to the country people, when the vault was just opened, supported a 

 skeleton. The strings of the bed have now, however, given way and 

 the skeleton, which is evidently that of a man, is lying on its back, on 



