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[[underline]] Chapter X. [[/underline]] 20^[[2.]] true, forget the habitual and very effective hurling of stones by hand, indulged in during clan and village fights in parts of China down to modern times; nor a similar practice among the Tibetans. Nevertheless, slings (known as [[underline] ]p'iao-shih [[/underline]] 飄 石 ---literally, "whirl-stones") formerly played a not unimportant part in warfare in China. They still survive there, in fact, both as children's toys and as instruments used by herdboys in controlling and guiding from a distance the movements of their four-footed charges. The Chinese have never, so far as I know, employed in their slings missiles of lead, such as the Roman [[underline]] glandes [[/underline]] or "acorns", but have used instead stones of suitable size and shape. The probability that these aggregations of pebbles were somehow connected with the former defences on the Point was heightened by the manner in which they seemed to follow in general the lines of the various earthworks. The small boulders that we found associated with them, too large to have served as sling-stones, had perhaps been intended for casting down on the heads of assailants. [[underline]] Bricks, Tiles, and Potsherds. [[/underline]] On and near the earthen platform on which stood the lighthouse, we picked up several broken pieces of tiles and baked bricks. The latter bore impressed on them the same concentric lozenge pattern as that on the bricks which we had lately found in the Yu Ho Chên area. [[strikethrough]] (see page 00 [[insertion]] ^[[157)]] [[/insertion]] and fig. 00).[[/strikethrough]] Both tiles and bricks seemed to me to be of Eastern Han type---an identification later confirmed by Mr. Ch'iu. A striking feature of the whole site, north as well as south of the marshy depression that crossed it, was the vast quantity of potsherds scattered all over its surface and to a depth of three feet or more in the soil. Most plentiful near the lighthouse, they were also numerous elsewhere---so much so, in fact, that in places we could hardly avoid
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