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INVESTIGATIONS AT ASSOS, 1881. 23
chief town of the district, was directly dependent upon Con-
stantinople.1
The Governor of Broussa, whose opposition had been so de-
termined, and against whose will it had seemed so inadvisable
to the Porte to grant an earadek, had nothing whatever to do
with the matter, and in all probability had never even heard
of it. After the exposition of these facts further evasions
were not attempted. The permission to excavate was at last
granted.
Another hindrance to the advance of the investigations,
severely felt during the summer months, was the shipwreck
of the vessel which had on board the household outfit of the
party. Having left Boston at the end of January, the barque
"Fame" discharged her cargo upon St. Thomas, to which
island she had been driven from her direct course to Smyrna.
The goods of the Expedition not spoiled by salt water were
reshipped, but did not reach Smyrna until the end of June.
The presence of an agent of the Institute was required there
to attend to the legal determination of the general average
necessary before the goods could be unloaded, to conduct
similar troublesome negotiations with the customs officials to
those described above, and to forward the cases, obtained
after great delay, to Behram.
In returning from this unpleasant detention the writer was
enabled, by the hospitality of his friend Dr. Carl Humann, to
study in Pergamon the various methods of excavation which
had been proved by long experience to be best adapted to
the peculiarities of the country. The Expedition is under
great obligations to Dr. Humann for his effective furtherance
of the work by sending to Assos, at a later date, a small body
of picked men who had been in his service since the first
1 The division of the Vilayets of Asia Minor is evident from any good map;
as, for instance, from Kiepert's well-known General Chart of the Turkish
Empire.
chief town of the district, was directly dependent upon Con-
stantinople.1
The Governor of Broussa, whose opposition had been so de-
termined, and against whose will it had seemed so inadvisable
to the Porte to grant an earadek, had nothing whatever to do
with the matter, and in all probability had never even heard
of it. After the exposition of these facts further evasions
were not attempted. The permission to excavate was at last
granted.
Another hindrance to the advance of the investigations,
severely felt during the summer months, was the shipwreck
of the vessel which had on board the household outfit of the
party. Having left Boston at the end of January, the barque
"Fame" discharged her cargo upon St. Thomas, to which
island she had been driven from her direct course to Smyrna.
The goods of the Expedition not spoiled by salt water were
reshipped, but did not reach Smyrna until the end of June.
The presence of an agent of the Institute was required there
to attend to the legal determination of the general average
necessary before the goods could be unloaded, to conduct
similar troublesome negotiations with the customs officials to
those described above, and to forward the cases, obtained
after great delay, to Behram.
In returning from this unpleasant detention the writer was
enabled, by the hospitality of his friend Dr. Carl Humann, to
study in Pergamon the various methods of excavation which
had been proved by long experience to be best adapted to
the peculiarities of the country. The Expedition is under
great obligations to Dr. Humann for his effective furtherance
of the work by sending to Assos, at a later date, a small body
of picked men who had been in his service since the first
1 The division of the Vilayets of Asia Minor is evident from any good map;
as, for instance, from Kiepert's well-known General Chart of the Turkish
Empire.