volume 2 - Robert Bedrosian's Armenian History Workshop

Results of the Third Mission. 137
some natives who brought me several hieroglyphic and
Greek papyri, and I made arrangements for these to
follow me to England. We arrived at Marseilles on
the 13th and stayed a day there. We left the following
morning and arrived at Gibraltar on Tuesday
morning. In obedience to some special order which
the captain received there we left in two hours,
and, thanks to the cahn state of the Bay of Biscay,
which was literally " like a mill-pond," we passed the
Eddystone Lighthouse at dawn on Friday April 19th,
and soon after reached Plymouth, where I left the
ship. The " Oriental " was a very fine and comfortable
ship, and as she had made the journey from Bombay
to London in record time, her captain, officers and
passengers warmly congratulated each other and them-
selves.
Mr. P. Le Page Renouf, Keeper of the Department,
submitted a detailed account of my Mission to the
Trustees at their meeting. May nth, and was so good
as to report " that the duties of the delicate and most
arduous task imposed upon Mr. Budge have been
discharged with the same intelligent ability and discretion
which had so signally distinguished the efficiency
of his work in former Missions." And the Trustees
" approved " his report.
The material results of the Mission were :
I. 210 tablets and fragments, and miscellaneous
objects from Kuyunjik.
II. 1,500 tablets, 49 cylinder-seals, etc., from
Abu Habbah and Der.
III. 3 rolls of papyrus inscribed on both sides in
Greek. On the backs of these rolls was
the copy of Aristotle's 'AdrjvaCojv iroXLTeCa,
the publication of which has brought such
fame to the Trustees of the British Museum,
and the editor, Sir F. G. Kenyon, K.C.B.
IV. Various rolls of papyrus containing portions
of the Iliad, magicaL texts, etc.
V. 3 hieroglyphic papyri.