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ANCIENT TROY. 



THE RESEARCHES OF DR. SCHLIEMANN IN 



1872 AND 1873. 



ACCOUNT BY BAYARD TAYLOR OF THEIR RESULTS 

 FOUR CITIES EACH BUILT UPON' THE RUINS OF THE 

 PRECEDING ONE THE SC^E AN GATE PALACE OF 

 THE KINGS TREASURY OF GOLD AND SILVER 

 ORNAMENTS AND UTENSILS. 

 [FROM A REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE.] 



GOTHA, Germany, Feb. 10. Another chapter has 

 been added to the "Tale of Troy divine." Of all the 

 discoveries of tin- la-t twenty-five years, inestimable 

 as is their collective contribution to our knowledge 

 of the Pa-t. not one i- vii remarkable and unexpected 

 as the recent finding of storied Ilium, after a sepul- 

 ture of more than two thousand years, during which 

 the very site of it bail been forgotten. It is even more 

 surprising than the re-discovery of Nineveh by Lay- 

 anl. vine,, the mounds of Ximroud and Kuyounjik 

 sufficiently indicated the site of the old Assyrian cap- 

 ital; while Ilium itself, and the whole history of the 

 Trojan war, have narrowly escaped, of late years, 

 being relegated to the region of pure myths by mod- 

 ern scholarship. All (hi- is suddenly changed: many 

 a fine]y--pun archa.'ological theory is rent like a cob- 

 web: Homer is gloriously rehabilitated, and the 

 \ery arms and ornaments of the Dardan heroes and 

 heroines are delivered into our hands. Fragmentary 

 reports of Dr. Schliemann's excavations in the Troad 

 have from time to time appeared in the newspapers, 

 and his great success, last year, in finding what is 

 conveniently called " The Treasury of Priam," has 

 been duly chronicled throughout the world ; but now, 

 for the first time, we have the entire history of the 

 undertaking and it.- results. The narrative, accom- 

 panied by IMS photographic sheets of illustrations, is 

 published by the firm of F. A. Brockhaus, in Leip/.ig, 

 to whom I am indebted for one of the very earliest 

 copies. I lose no time in preparing for THE TRIB- 

 UNE a resume of the work as complete and intelli- 

 gible as the space will allow. Even if I felt myself 

 competent (which I do not) to examine the conflict- 

 ing views of German scholars by the light of the 

 ancient authorities, I should prefer to let Dr. Sehlie- 

 niann have his full say. He has nobly earned it; 

 and I shall therefore confine myself to the plain 

 statement of his own arguments and conclusions. 



SKETCH OF DR. SCULIEMANN. 



Before beginning the hi-tory of his discoveries, it 

 may interest, the reader- of THE TiUBUNE to learn 

 -omething about the man who has made them. It 

 will do us American- no harm to find that " self- 

 made men " are not peculiar to our race and soil. 

 Ours, when they are -uccc--fiil, are noted, and 

 grandly so, for giving of their sub-lance, hardly for 

 their own intellectual achievement-. \Vo have had, 

 as yet, no such specimens a- l.'o-cne, the Liverpool 



merchant, or Grote, the London banker. Dr. Schiie 



mann ranks with these latter, a- an encouraging 

 illustration of the fact that "Im-ine-s" need not 

 prevent, or even materially retard, the development 



of high intellectual qualities. Starting in life with 

 absolutely nothing, he achieved wealth by the time 

 he was forty-one years old, and now, not yet fifty-two, 

 he has won a permanent fame. 



Heinrich Schliemann was born in the Grand- 

 Duchy of Mecklenburg in 1822. His father was very 

 poor, but had received an indifferent classical edu- 

 cation, and was very fond of repeating episodes from 

 the Iliad to his young son. The latter learned some 

 Latin during his early school years, but all his 

 chance- cca-i'd at. the age of fourteen, when he was 

 put into a grocery-store in the little town of Fiir- 

 stenburg. There, for nearly six years, he weighed, 

 packed, swept, and did all other coarse duties, sixteen 

 hours a day. saw only the |owe-t and most ignorant 

 da-s of the people, and seemed to have forgotten 

 almost all he had ever learned. One evening a 

 drunken miller's apprentice came into the grocery 

 and declaimed a hundred verses of Homer in Un- 

 original Greek. He was the son , ,f a clergyman, had 

 failed at the University, and the father's desperate 

 attempt to make a decent miller of him was about 

 to fail also. Young Schliemann was so enchanted 

 by the sound of the Greek, not one word of which 

 he understood, that he used all his pocket-mone\ to 

 buy three glasses of brandy for the student-miller, 

 on condition that he would three times repeat the 

 Homeric lines. " From that moment," he says, " 1 

 never ceased to pray to God that He would enable 

 me to learn Greek." 



Having injured his breast by lifting a heavy cask, 

 so that he was no longer able to work in the grocery, 

 he went to Hamburg, and in a state of desperation 

 shipped as cabin-boy on board a vessel bound for 

 Laguayra. He left port on the I'Sth of November. 

 1841. and just two weeks afterward the vessel was 

 wrecked on the Texel. With great danger and hard- 

 ship the crew was saved. Schliemann made his way 

 to Amsterdam, intending to enlist as a soldier: but 

 finding himself on the point of starving to death, he 

 pretended to be sick and was sent to the hospital. 

 Finally, a German merchant discovered and as-i-ted 

 him, and the Consul procured him a situation as 

 errand-boy in a mercantile house. 



His salary \va- si MI francs a year, and the half of it 

 he instantly devoted to his educat ion. He inhabited 

 a miserable garret-room, without fire, for which he 

 paid eight francs a month; his breakfasts were r\ e 

 mush and cold water, and his dinner- never co.-t more 

 than three cents apiece. After learning to write a 

 good legible hand, he began the study of langiiM-e-: 

 but his memory was so deficient, through lack of 

 use, that he was compelled to carry bis books with 

 him on his errands, and study by snatches a- he 

 walked or waited. At the end of a year be knew 

 Knglish and French, and hi- memory had improved 

 80 wonderfully, that he acipiired a good commercial 

 knowledge of Italian, Spanish, and I'ortugue.-e, by 

 giving only six weeks to each language. But these 

 si udie- and the running of errand- from morning till 

 night did not work well together; they damaged 



each other. Schliemann'- principal refused to give 



him a better position, but, by great <+ 1 fortune be 



obtained a place as clerk and corre-pondent in the 

 house of Schroder fc Co., Amsterdam, with a salars 



