Dec. 22. Leave Mazee, arrive Thebes. Dec. 24. Leave Thebes, arrive Skurta. Dec. 25. Leave Skurta, pass Phyle, arrive Athens. (Stanzas i.-xv., stanza lxxiv.) Dec. 30. Byron finishes the First Canto of _Childe Harold_. 1810. Jan. 13. Visit Eleusis. Jan. 16. Visit Mendeli (Pentelicus). (Stanza lxxxvii.) Jan. 18. Walk round the peninsula of Munychia. Jan. 19. Leave Athens, arrive Vari. Jan. 20. Leave Vari, arrive Keratéa. Jan. 23. 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.) Mar. 7. Arrive Smyrna. (Letters 132, 133.) Mar. 13. Leave Smyrna, sleep at _Han_, near the river Halesus. Mar. 14. Leave _Han_, arrive Aiasaluk (near Ephesus). Mar. 15. Visit site of temple of Artemis at Ephesus. (Letter 132.) Mar. 16. Leave Ephesus, return to Smyrna. (Letter 132.) Mar. 28. Byron finishes the Second Canto of _Childe Harold_. April 11. Sail from Smyrna in the _Salsette_ frigate. (Letter 134.) April 12. Anchor off Tenedos. April 13. Visit ruins of Alexandria Troas. April 14. Anchor off Cape Janissary. April 16. Byron attempts to swim across the Hellespont, explores the Troad. (Letters 135, 136.) April 30. Visit the springs of Bunarbashi (Bunarbási). May 1. 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.) July 14. Sail from Constantinople in _Salsette_ frigate. July 18. 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 v Introduction to the First and Second Cantos ix Notes on the MSS. of the First and Second Cantos xvi Itinerary xxi Preface to the First and Second Cantos 3 To Ianthe 11 Canto the First 15