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blackened with smoke, and are evidently parts of cooking 
pots. 
The glazed ware, I think, we may fairly presume, was 
not made by the cave-dwellers, but obtained from some people 
in a higher state of civilization. One piece of this was dis- 
covered at a depth of two feet in a small excavation which I 
made towards the outer side of the cave in the “ main hall.”’ 
The other pieces, four in number, were obtained at depths of 
about a foot to a foot-and-a-half. Out of the five, two are 
fragments of fairly fine yellowish ware covered with a yellow- 
ish-green glaze, two, bits of rather thick pottery on which 
some slight patterns of meandering lines can still be traced. 
Only traces of greeri glaze—much cracked, and in a very pow- 
dery condition—are left on these two specimens. Where, 
however, it can still be seen the patterns show up as being 
darker than their ground, since they were made by engraving 
the pot before the application of the semi-transparent glaze, 
and thus, when the vessel was treated with it, they, in receiv- 
ing more than the ground, became darker coloured. The 
fifth piece of glazed ware has a yellow-green ground with some 
brownish bands running through it horizontally. 
One undoubted implement of bone was found in our larg- 
est excavation, but to what use it was put, unless to scratch 
the body or head, for which purpose bamboo pins are used at 
the present day among some Sakai and Jakun tribes, I do not 
know. It is made from a piece of a mammalian limb-bone 
of medium size which has been split longitudinally, and 
ground down (internally) at one end toa point. Two or three 
other pointed fragments of bone were also encountered, but 
it is possible that bones fractured in this manner were broken 
to get at the marrow, and were not intentionally shaped, 
though one of them rather gives the i impression that this had 
been the case. None of the latter specimens show any signs 
of grinding or polishin 
Several pieces of black iron-ore (haematite?) were also 
met with in our largest excavation. At first I thought that 
they might have been used in conjunction with a quartz pebble 
for obtaining fire, but, on making the experiment, I could not 
obtain any sparks. 
We now come to the associated human remains. These 
comprise a skull almost complete, with the exception of the 
jaws and other facial bones, and some pieces of limb-bones. 
One small piece of the upper jaw and a few much worn-down 
teeth were, however, found separately. The skull was resting 
with its base upon the bed-rock at a depth of three feet from 
the surface. Its condition, like that of the other human bones, 
was extremely friable, and it broke into pieces when being 
removed, but, by carefully preserving all the fragments I have 
been able to make a fair restoration of it. I think it best, 
however, not to attempt to deal at length with these remains 
