The Works of Lord Byron

1809. Nov. 18.

Nov. 19.

Nov. 20.

Nov. 23.

Dec. 4.

Dec. 5. Dec. 14. Dec. 15. Dec. 16.

Dec. 17.

Dec. 18.

Dec. 21.

Dec. 22.

Dec. 24.
Dec. 25.

1810.

Jan. 13.
Jan. 16.
Jan. 18.
Jan. 19.

Jan. 20.
Jan. 23.

Leave Chrysó, arrive Arakhova (Rhakova).
Leave Arakhova, arrive Livadia (Livadhia).
Leave Livadia, arrive Mazee (Mazi).

Leave Mazee, arrive Thebes.

Leave Thebes, arrive Skurta.

Leave Skurta, pass Phyle, arrive Athens.

(Stanzas i.-xv., stanza lxxiv.) Dec. 30. Byron finishes the First Canto of Childe Harold.

Mar. 7. Mar. 13.

Mar. 14.
Mar. 15.

Leave Makalá, arrive Guriá.
Leave Guriá, arrive Ætolikon.
Leave Ætolikon, arrive Mesolonghi.
Sail from Mesolonghi, arrive Patras.
Leave Patras, sleep at Han on shore.
Leave Han, arrive Vostitsa (Egion).
Sail from Vostitsa, arrive Larnáki (? Itea).
Leave Larnáki (? Itea), arrive Chrysó.

Visit Delphi, the Pythian Cave, and stream of
Castaly. (Canto I. stanza i.)

Visit Eleusis.

Visit Mendeli (Pentelicus). (Stanza lxxxvii.)
Walk round the peninsula of Munychia.

Leave Athens, arrive Vari.

Leave Vari, arrive Keratéa.

Visit temple of Athene at Sunium. (Stanza lxxxvi.)

Jan. 24.

Leave Keratéa, arrive plain of Marathon.

Jan. 25. Visit plain of Marathon. (Stanzas lxxxix., xc.)
Jan. 26. Leave Marathon, arrive Athens.

Mar. 5.

Leave Athens, embark on board the Pylades. (Letter 136.)

Arrive Smyrna. (Letters 132, 133.)

Leave Smyrna, sleep at Han, near the river
Halesus.

Leave Han, arrive Aiasaluk (near Ephesus).
Visit site of temple of Artemis at Ephesus. (Letter
132.)

Mar. 16. Leave Ephesus, return to Smyrna. (Letter 132.)

1810.

Mar. 28.
April 11.

April 12.
April 13.
April 14.
April 16.

July 14.
July 18.

Byron finishes the Second Canto of Childe Harold.
Sail from Smyrna in the Salsette frigate. (Letter

134.)

Anchor off Tenedos.

Visit ruins of Alexandria Troas.

Anchor off Cape Janissary.

April 30.
May 1.

Byron attempts to swim across the Hellespont,
explores the Troad. (Letters 135, 136.)
Visit the springs of Bunarbashi (Bunarbási).
Weigh anchor from off Cape Janissary, anchor
eight miles from Dardanelles.

May 2.

Anchor off Castle Chanak Kalessia (Kale i
Sultaniye).

May 3.

Byron and Mr. Ekenhead swim across the Hellespont (lines "Written after swimming," etc.). May 13. Anchor off Venaglio Point, arrive Constantinople. (Stanzas lxxvii.-lxxxii. Letters 138-145.)

Sail from Constantinople in Salsette frigate.
Byron returns to Athens.

NOTE TO "ITINERARY."

[For dates and names of towns and villages, see Travels in Albania, and other Provinces of Turkey, in 1809 and 1810, by the Right Hon. Lord Broughton, G.C.B. [John Cam Hobhouse], two volumes, 1858. The orthography is based on that of Longmans' Gazetteer of the World, edited by G. G. Chisholm, 1895. The alternative forms are taken from Heinrich Kiepert's Carte de l'Épire et de la Thessalie, Berlin, 1897, and from Dr. Karl Peucker's Griechenland, Wien, 1897.]

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE.

Preface to Vol. II. of the Poems

Introduction to the First and Second Cantos

Notes on the MSS. of the First and Second Cantos .

Itinerary

Preface to the First and Second Cantos.