192 VOYAGE TO ATHENS. 
CHAP, erroneously marked in our best maps. But 
Pausanias does not say the statue was visible 
from Sunium : his words are, " to those sailing 
from Sunium :" the situation, and distance, of 
the spectator are therefore very indefinitely 
marked 1 . 
Towards evening we were again becalmed, 
and anchored near to a Cape which is opposite 
to a point of the Island of SALAMIS. Here we 
sent the pilot on shore whom we had brought 
from Z'ia, as he was the only person acquainted 
with the country, directing him to go to Athens 
and hire horses to meet us at the Piraeus on 
the following day. Soon after midnight, a 
breeze sprung up ; and our impatience getting 
the better of all apprehension, we resolved to 
steer for the Pir&eus, without any other pilot 
than the stars, which shone with great bright- 
ness. We knew that our course was due north: 
and therefore pointing out the polar star to the 
master of the caique, we persuaded him to get 
under weigh, promising to pilot his vessel into 
harbour as safely as we had done before into 
(1) TiJ; '.AAiva; t> rou Paeans <*^X,C-^ """ * *<? *<* *g'f, Zaun/an 
#(srir*.itvffi* <TTI jjSn -i/Wr. Pausaniee Attica, c. 28. p. 67. Lips. 1696. 
