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TROY 357
much of it in full view of the Hellespont. We passed
caravans of camels, six sturdy oxen yoked together
ploughing the fertile fields, and a procession of sixty
Turks on horseback returning from a fair or fete.
Halting for a brief rest in a Turkish village, late in
the afternoon we galloped up to Hissarlik with as
much ardor as if we had come to save the day for the
Greeks. We were three thousand years too late; the
Wooden Horse had got there ahead of us.
We were cordially received at Schliemannville, as
the little group of huts which sheltered Dr. Ddrpfcld
and his associates was called. Though these huts had
not the grandeur of the palace of Priam, they prob-
ably afforded much better accommodations than the
Greeks had on the plain below. If we did not find
Agamemnon or Menelaus, Priam, or Paris, Odysseus
or JjneaiSj wc found Dr. Dorpfeld, Dr. Wolters, Mr.
Wilberg, and a few others, helping to direct the large
force of men employed in the excavations. Not by
dart, spear, sword or arrow was the modern siege
conducted, but by pick and shovel; and the wheeled
chariots were not those of Achilles or Diomedes, but
hand-cars which were carrying off the debris.
II
THE MODERN SIEGE
It was Schliemann who began the modern siege
of Troy. How he was laughed at for making the
attempt! As if there were anything in Homer but
pure fiction! His faith, enthusiasm and persever-
ance were based on a settled consciousness of
historic elements in Homer. In spite of the wonder-
much of it in full view of the Hellespont. We passed
caravans of camels, six sturdy oxen yoked together
ploughing the fertile fields, and a procession of sixty
Turks on horseback returning from a fair or fete.
Halting for a brief rest in a Turkish village, late in
the afternoon we galloped up to Hissarlik with as
much ardor as if we had come to save the day for the
Greeks. We were three thousand years too late; the
Wooden Horse had got there ahead of us.
We were cordially received at Schliemannville, as
the little group of huts which sheltered Dr. Ddrpfcld
and his associates was called. Though these huts had
not the grandeur of the palace of Priam, they prob-
ably afforded much better accommodations than the
Greeks had on the plain below. If we did not find
Agamemnon or Menelaus, Priam, or Paris, Odysseus
or JjneaiSj wc found Dr. Dorpfeld, Dr. Wolters, Mr.
Wilberg, and a few others, helping to direct the large
force of men employed in the excavations. Not by
dart, spear, sword or arrow was the modern siege
conducted, but by pick and shovel; and the wheeled
chariots were not those of Achilles or Diomedes, but
hand-cars which were carrying off the debris.
II
THE MODERN SIEGE
It was Schliemann who began the modern siege
of Troy. How he was laughed at for making the
attempt! As if there were anything in Homer but
pure fiction! His faith, enthusiasm and persever-
ance were based on a settled consciousness of
historic elements in Homer. In spite of the wonder-