treasures of gold ornaments which I found in my excavations on Hissarlik, confirming the epithet "πολύχρυσος" which Homer gives to Troy. I therefore resolved upon continuing the excavations at Hissarlik, for five months more, to clear up the mystery, and to settle finally the important Trojan question. The firman obtained for me in the summer of 1878 by the good offices of my honoured friend Sir A. H. Layard, then English Ambassador at Constantinople, having expired, I had in the summer of 1881 applied to H. H. Prince Bismarck, through whose kind intervention I received, at the end of October in the same year, a new firman for continuing the excavations at Hissarlik, and on the site of the lower town of Ilium. As a supplement to the firman, he obtained for me some months later the permission to make, simultaneously with the exploration of Troy, excavations on any other site in the Troad I might desire, provided these latter were limited to one site at a time, and were made in the presence of a Turkish delegate. In order to be able to secure for science any light which might be obtained from ancient architectural remains, I engaged the services of two eminent architects—Dr. William Dörpfeld of Berlin, who had for four years managed the technical part of the excavations of the German Empire at Olympia, and Mr. Joseph Höfler of Vienna; both of whom had taken the first prizes in their respective Academies, so as to obtain State stipends for scientific travels in Italy. The monthly salary of the former was £35, that of the latter £15 and travelling expenses. I also engaged three able overseers; two of them were Peloponnesians, who had already served and distinguished themselves in the same capacity in the excavations at Olympia; one of them, Gregorios Basilopoulos, a native of Magouliana, near Gortynia, received for this Trojan campaign the name of Ilos; the other, Georgios Paraskevopoulos, a native of Pyrgos, was now baptized Laomedon. The latter was of great use to me by his gigantic frame and herculean
