VOYAGE TO SYROS. 147 
Athens Zoster Promontory Doultful Story of Mi- 
nerva's Statue Arrival at the Piraeeus Approach to 
Athens. 
FROM the quarries of MARPESSUS we de- ni. * 
scended again to Parechia ; and the next day, ' *~^ 
the wind being favourable, although somewhat 
boisterous, we embarked, and set sail for SYIIOS, voyage to 
Syrut* 
now called Syra. Our Captain would have 
steered for DE LOS : but this island, since the visit 
paid to it by the Russians, has been stripped of 
all its valuable antiquities ; besides this, the gale 
we had encountered between Patmos and Naxos 
had somewhat intimidated us ; and as our crazy 
old caique was not sea-worthy, we resolved to 
run for the most ivestern port in our course 
towards the Sinus Saronicus, now called the Gulph 
of Engia, from a modern name of the Island of 
JEciNA. We saw the Delian Isles, as we passed 
with a rapidity known only to the swallows 1 of 
the Archipelago, and entered the harbour of Syra 
in the morning of October the twenty-second. 
Our faithful Greek servant, who had travelled 
with us as our interpreter ever since we left 
(l) This is one of the names given to the boats used for navigating 
the Archipelago, 
L2 
