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tered, which should take the exact route desired and should stop 

 according to the will of the head of the party. This first trip occu- 

 pied fourteen days. 



The second tour covered twelve days, and was primarily for a 

 visit to the islands of the JEgean, but provided also for visits to 

 Poros, in Peloponnesus, and to Suuium, Rhamnus, and Marathon, 

 on the Attic coast, which could not be reached so easily from Athens 

 by land. The specially chartered steamer stopped at Eretria, on 

 Eubcea, at least once, and in some cases twice ; at Andros, Tenos, 

 Myconos, Delos, Syra, Paros, Naxos, Thera, and Melos, and at five 

 stations on the shore of Crete — Heraclion (for Cnossus), Gurnia, 

 Palseocastro, Phaestus, and Agia Triada. As on the trip through 

 Peloponnesus, Dr. Dorpfeld lectured regularly, sometimes on the 

 boat in preparation for the visit, as well as in the presence of the 

 ruins, and in addition we had on Crete the hospitality and exposi- 

 tions, at Cnossus, of Arthur Evans, the discoverer ; at Gurnia, of 

 Miss Boyd ; at Palseocastro, of Mr. Bosanquet, of the British School 

 at Athens, and at Phsestus and Agia Triada, of the Italian exca- 

 vators Parabeni and Pernier, Halbherr, the chief excavator, being 

 ill. This second party was constituted much like the first, but was 

 rather larger, and comprised more dilettanti. The steamer could 

 accommodate more persons than could find horses and mules for the 

 ride across Arcadia, and the life was less strenuous than in Pelopon- 

 nesus, although the physical exertions required in the visits to some 

 of the islands were not slight. 



The third expedition with Dr. Dorpfeld was to Troy, setting out 

 shortly after the return from the visit to the islands of the Archi- 

 pelago. To Dorpfeld is due all the scientific results of Schliemann's 

 excavations on the site of Troy — indeed, Schliemann died just be- 

 fore the Homeric city was recognized — and here, as at Olympia, 

 every stone was familiar to him. One morning he lectured more 

 than four hours without interruption. At Troy we remained for 

 three days, listening to lectures for at least ten hours, but having 

 some time free for our own independent observations ; and from 

 Troy we made an excursion to the heights of Bunarbashi, which 

 before Schliemann's excavations was generally accepted as the site 

 of Homeric Troy. The party to Troy numbered twenty five, being 

 necessarily smaller than either of the others for lack of accommoda- 

 tion. Some of us were quartered in Schliemann's old barracks, near 

 the citadel, but the younger members of the party were obliged to 

 sleep in a Turkish village nearly a mile distant. 



