making images inscribed with their names, which they then subjected to certain rites.125
[In January, 1854, I transferred the charge of the Consulate at Rhodes to Mr. J. B. Blunt, being obliged to go to England on private business. I returned to Turkey in June of the same year, and a new Consul having been appointed at Rhodes, went back to my old post at Mytilene.]
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I spent a few days at Athens on my way back, and took the opportunity of revisiting Mavrodhilissi to examine a fragment of one of the inscriptions discovered since I copied them in 1852. This fragment gives the commencement of the list of victors in the games. In the course of my stay, I became acquainted with several of the young professors, who are sent out by the French Government to study archæology in the Levant, and who have their head-quarters at the École Française at Athens. One of these gentlemen, M. Guérin, has illustrated the antiquities of Rhodes, Samos, and Patmos in memoirs to which I have already referred. Another member of this school, M. Boutan, is about to visit Mytilene for the purpose of preparing a memoir on the island, which has been selected as a subject by the French Academy. I accompanied him and
