The Hidden Treasure

arak, and tried to commit suicide in the Tigris. He attacked
the vizier's sons as they walked down the High Street, and
suggested that twenty witnesses be, bought and a counter
lawsuit started. I used to be told unkindly that my friends
were all in prison or likely to go there soon. And when
finally we heard that Hasan had been seized again and was
safe between four government walls, we accepted the news
with no little relief.

As for the treasure, whether it really exists or not is:
still uncertain. And the mountain and the cave are still
to be explored.

Note.—The skull from the Larti grave reached Baghdad
safely, was presented to the museum there, and is described
as follows:
" The specimen found by Miss Stark, and presented by
her to the Baghdad Museum, consists of a cranium and
mandible. It was found in a grave underneath an over-
hanging cliff in the valley of the Larti, which lies in the eastern
part of the Pusht-i-Kuh in Luristan. Itis extremely brachy-
cephalic, with an index of 88-6. The face is entirely missing,
although the lower jaw is present, and die cranium is intact.
The principal cranial measurements and indices are as follows:
Maximum head length 167 mm
„ width 148 „
Basi-bragmatic height 137 ,,
Minim, frontal diam. 97 ,,
Basi-nasion length 102 ,,
Cephalic index (length
width) 88-6 „
Length-height index 80*3 ,,
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