A EIDE ACEOSS THE PELOPOMESE. 1 



BY GEORGE A. MACMILLAN. 



[MAG A. MAY 1878.] 



I. 

 THE APPROACH TO GREECE. 



" Come, let us go to the land where the gods in the old time wandered, 

 Where every breath even now chaugeth to ether divine ! " 



CLOUGH. 



WITH my mind full of such, thoughts as Clough 

 has suggested in the above lines, and with 

 Eton days yet fresh in my memory, I went on board 

 the Trinacria, which left Brindisi about 8.30 P.M. on 

 Easter Sunday (April 1, 1877), bound for Corfu and 

 Greece. Till ten we paced the deck, watching the 

 stars come out and the coast of Italy fade from view. 

 Then we turned in, knowing that the land on which 

 our eyes would open in the morning would be Greek. 

 The moon shining in through the cabin window woke 



1 I have thought it best to leave these first impressions as 

 they stand, making no attempt to record the changes in fact 

 and opinion inevitable after twelve years. G. A. M. 



