PORT, OF SUNIUM. 179 
point of the Cape, we anchored in the antient CHAP. 
port of Sunium, an insignificant bay, lying within ... T ^ 
the gulph, sheltered by the promontory. Here Slimum - 
we landed. The owners of a small boat which 
we observed coasting, believing us to be pirates, 
ran their vessel aground, and abandoned her as 
soon as they perceived our caique coming round 
the Cape, making their escape up the rocks near 
to the shore. We endeavoured, by signs, to 
convince them of our peaceable intentions; but 
they betook themselves to some woods, and 
appeared no more while we remained in the bay. 
Proceeding towards the temple, we found the 
rocks covered with evergreens and bushy 
shrubs ; among which we noticed the Pistacia 
Lentiscus, the myrtle, the Velania oak, and some 
dwarf cedars. We also found some rolled 
pieces of green trap or basalt, containing a 
dendritic crystallization; but had not leisure for 
a due examination of the strata on which this 
i temple stands ; our sailors, who had themselves 
been mistaken for pirates, being very impatient 
to get under weigh, through fear that some of 
the real robbers would arrive, who make the 
bay of Sunium their lurking-place, where they 
lie-in-wait for vessels going in or out of the 
gulph. It was with difficulty we could pacify 
the master of the caique during the time we 
