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103 MODERN DISCOVERIES AT ANCIENT EPHESUS.
visit the works and report upon them. On an appointed
day we therefore went out to Ephesus together. The
secretary was effeminate and very dandified, wearing
black cloth clothes and patent leather boots, the latter
quite unsuitable for the business he had come about.
I took him to the edges of the pitfalls I had dug on the
road from the station to the theatre, and by the time we
reached the theatre he was thoroughly sick of the whole
matter, and was glad to refresh himself in the theatre
with the lunch I had provided. The result of his visit
was that I was left in peace to pursue my explorations
undisturbed.
British Sailors at Ephesus.
As all the antiquities selected for export to England
were sent to the British Museum, English men-of-war
were sent by the Admiralty from Malta to Smyrna to
fetch them from time to time. The Terrible, commanded
by Captain (now Admiral Sir John) Commcrclh was the
first that came. Captain Commerell told off twenty-six
blue-jackets, of whom two were petty officers, all under
the command of Lieutenant Hallett. This was in January
and February, 1868, when unusually cold weather had
set in ; this, however, was favourable to the work. The
blue-jackets were all quartered in the large lower room
of my house near the railway station. It did not take
them long to settle down, fix their cooking-stove, and
get everything in ' apple-pie order ;' and all but those
engaged in preparing the food for supper turned out for
a stroll, which they enjoyed very much after the confine-
visit the works and report upon them. On an appointed
day we therefore went out to Ephesus together. The
secretary was effeminate and very dandified, wearing
black cloth clothes and patent leather boots, the latter
quite unsuitable for the business he had come about.
I took him to the edges of the pitfalls I had dug on the
road from the station to the theatre, and by the time we
reached the theatre he was thoroughly sick of the whole
matter, and was glad to refresh himself in the theatre
with the lunch I had provided. The result of his visit
was that I was left in peace to pursue my explorations
undisturbed.
British Sailors at Ephesus.
As all the antiquities selected for export to England
were sent to the British Museum, English men-of-war
were sent by the Admiralty from Malta to Smyrna to
fetch them from time to time. The Terrible, commanded
by Captain (now Admiral Sir John) Commcrclh was the
first that came. Captain Commerell told off twenty-six
blue-jackets, of whom two were petty officers, all under
the command of Lieutenant Hallett. This was in January
and February, 1868, when unusually cold weather had
set in ; this, however, was favourable to the work. The
blue-jackets were all quartered in the large lower room
of my house near the railway station. It did not take
them long to settle down, fix their cooking-stove, and
get everything in ' apple-pie order ;' and all but those
engaged in preparing the food for supper turned out for
a stroll, which they enjoyed very much after the confine-