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CHAPTER XI.
Increase of men and machinery and cost on the works : but slow pro-
gress — Continued hurricane on " the windy Ilium " (T/Uos tyf/weo-a-a)
— The great platform proves too high — New cutting — Excavation
of the temple — Objects found — Greek statuettes in terra-cotta —
Many whorls with pM and suns — Wheel-shaped whorls with simple
patterns in the lowest strata—Terra-cotta balls with suns and stars—
Use of the whorls as amulets or coins discussed — Little bowls,
probably lamps — Other articles of pottery — Funnels —A terra-
cotta bell — Various beautiful terra-cottas — Attempts at forgery
by the workmen — Mode of naming the men — The springs in front
of Ilium — Question of Homer's hot and cold spring — Course of
the Simoi's — The tomb of Batiea or Myrina identified with the
Pacha Tepe — Theatre of Lysimachus — Heat and wind — Plague
of insects and scorpions — Konstantinos Kolobos, a native genius
without feet.
On the Hill of Hissarlik, July 13th, 1872.
My last report was dated the 18th of June. As the great
extent of my excavations renders it necessary for me
to work with no less than 120 men, I have already been
obliged, on account of the harvest season, to increase the
daily wages to 12 piasters since the 1st of June; but even
this would not have enabled me to collect the requisite
number of men, had not Mr. Max Miiller, the German
Consul in Gallipoli, had the kindness to send me 40 work-
men from that place. In consequence of this, even during
the busiest harvest season, I have always had from 12.0 to
130 workmen, and now that the harvest is over, I have
constantly 150. To facilitate the works, I have procured,
through the kindness of the English Consul in Con-
stantinople, Mr. Charles Cookson, 10 "man-carts," which
CHAPTER XI.
Increase of men and machinery and cost on the works : but slow pro-
gress — Continued hurricane on " the windy Ilium " (T/Uos tyf/weo-a-a)
— The great platform proves too high — New cutting — Excavation
of the temple — Objects found — Greek statuettes in terra-cotta —
Many whorls with pM and suns — Wheel-shaped whorls with simple
patterns in the lowest strata—Terra-cotta balls with suns and stars—
Use of the whorls as amulets or coins discussed — Little bowls,
probably lamps — Other articles of pottery — Funnels —A terra-
cotta bell — Various beautiful terra-cottas — Attempts at forgery
by the workmen — Mode of naming the men — The springs in front
of Ilium — Question of Homer's hot and cold spring — Course of
the Simoi's — The tomb of Batiea or Myrina identified with the
Pacha Tepe — Theatre of Lysimachus — Heat and wind — Plague
of insects and scorpions — Konstantinos Kolobos, a native genius
without feet.
On the Hill of Hissarlik, July 13th, 1872.
My last report was dated the 18th of June. As the great
extent of my excavations renders it necessary for me
to work with no less than 120 men, I have already been
obliged, on account of the harvest season, to increase the
daily wages to 12 piasters since the 1st of June; but even
this would not have enabled me to collect the requisite
number of men, had not Mr. Max Miiller, the German
Consul in Gallipoli, had the kindness to send me 40 work-
men from that place. In consequence of this, even during
the busiest harvest season, I have always had from 12.0 to
130 workmen, and now that the harvest is over, I have
constantly 150. To facilitate the works, I have procured,
through the kindness of the English Consul in Con-
stantinople, Mr. Charles Cookson, 10 "man-carts," which