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CHAPTER VII.
Smoking at work forbidden, and a mutiny suppressed — Progress of the
great platform — Traces of sacrifices — Colossal blocks of stone
belonging to great buildings—Funereal and other huge urns —
Supposed traces of Assyrian art — Ancient undisturbed remains —
Further discoveries of stone implements and owl-faced idols —
Meaning of the epithet " yXavKuy!n%"—Parallel of "Hpa /Souims, and
expected discovery of ox-headed idols at Mycenae — Vases of re-
markable forms — Dangers and engineering expedients—Georgios
Photidas — Extent of the Pergamus of Troy — Poisonous snakes,
and the snake-weed — The whorls with the central sun, stars, the
suastika, the Soma, or Tree of Life, and sacrificial altars — The name
of Mount Ida, probably brought from Bactria.
On the Hill of Hissarlik, April 25th, 1872.
Sixce my report of the 5th of this month I have continued
the excavations most industriously with an average of 12,0
workmen. Unfortunately, however, seven of these twenty
days were lost through rainy weather and festivals, one day
also by a mutiny among my men. I had observed that the
smoking of cigarettes interrupted the work, and I therefore
forbad smoking during working hours, but I did not gain
my point immediately, for I found that the men smoked in
secret. I was, however, determined to carry my point, and
caused it to be proclaimed that transgressors would be
forthwith dismissed and never taken on again. Enraged at
this, the workmen from the village of Renkoi—about 70
>n number—declared that they would not work, if every-
one were not allowed to smoke as much as he pleased;
they left the platform, and deterred the men from the
other villages from working by throwing stones. The
good people had imagined that I would give in to them
at once, as I could not do without them, and that
CHAPTER VII.
Smoking at work forbidden, and a mutiny suppressed — Progress of the
great platform — Traces of sacrifices — Colossal blocks of stone
belonging to great buildings—Funereal and other huge urns —
Supposed traces of Assyrian art — Ancient undisturbed remains —
Further discoveries of stone implements and owl-faced idols —
Meaning of the epithet " yXavKuy!n%"—Parallel of "Hpa /Souims, and
expected discovery of ox-headed idols at Mycenae — Vases of re-
markable forms — Dangers and engineering expedients—Georgios
Photidas — Extent of the Pergamus of Troy — Poisonous snakes,
and the snake-weed — The whorls with the central sun, stars, the
suastika, the Soma, or Tree of Life, and sacrificial altars — The name
of Mount Ida, probably brought from Bactria.
On the Hill of Hissarlik, April 25th, 1872.
Sixce my report of the 5th of this month I have continued
the excavations most industriously with an average of 12,0
workmen. Unfortunately, however, seven of these twenty
days were lost through rainy weather and festivals, one day
also by a mutiny among my men. I had observed that the
smoking of cigarettes interrupted the work, and I therefore
forbad smoking during working hours, but I did not gain
my point immediately, for I found that the men smoked in
secret. I was, however, determined to carry my point, and
caused it to be proclaimed that transgressors would be
forthwith dismissed and never taken on again. Enraged at
this, the workmen from the village of Renkoi—about 70
>n number—declared that they would not work, if every-
one were not allowed to smoke as much as he pleased;
they left the platform, and deterred the men from the
other villages from working by throwing stones. The
good people had imagined that I would give in to them
at once, as I could not do without them, and that