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 (Bunarbasi).

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'Epire 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

Notes 85

Canto the Second 97

Notes 165

Introduction to Canto the Third 211

Canto the Third 215

Notes 291

Introduction to Canto the Fourth 311

Original Draft, etc., of Canto the Fourth 316

Dedication 321

Canto the Fourth 327

Historical Notes by J. C. Hobhouse 465

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Ianthe (Lady C