Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. La vie sauvage—Beautiful scenery between Olympia and Andritsasna—Pass through Krestena and Greka—White heath and red anemones—Arrive in the dark—Strange quarters—The young student—We sleep on the floor. We had often laughed over the shortcomings of the Xenodochion, but in spite of all Monsieur V. said, it was not until we went to Andritsaena that we experienced the real vie sauvage. About a day and a half's journey below Olympia is the Temple of Apollo at Bassae, which still has some thirty-five columns standing, and what makes this temple so particularly interesting to the English is, that the beautiful frieze of the contests of the Greeks and the Amazons, now in the British Museum, came from it. When Bassae is visited it is generally approached from the south in the regulation tour of the Peloponnesus; we intended to run down from Olympia and see it. Of course, dragomen and beds were not to be obtained at Olympia, but a native guide was forthcoming who undertook to see us through the expedition in three days—viz. Olympia to Andritsaena, one day ; the Temple of Bassae, the ruins Start For Andritsna. 37 of the ancient city of Phigalefa, and back to An- dritsasna, second day; return to Olympia the third day. Baedeker gives ten hours for the journey between Olympia and Andr/tsasna; our guide said, including one hour's necessary halt for the animals, it would take twelve; in point of fact, owing to the state of the roads, or rather the want of any roads at all, we were over that time. We made no inquiry as to our lodging, as we thought the less we said the more likely we were to stumble on the real life of the natives. Soon after six a.m. we flitted down the salle-d- manger to see if there were any preparations for our departure, and, tied to the thorns...