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tions very much. We arrived in the late afternoon at Mikonos and were lightered ashore as the sea was too rough to tie up at the dock. This is a most picturesque little island and evidently a tourist place, because it was also an artist colony with lots of shops selling painting, weaving, ceramics, jewelry and native souvenirs of various kinds. Every building is white washed so that it is all blinding white in the sun. We were supposed to go from here to the island of Dolos, nearby, which was the reputed birth- place of Apollo and a sacred place to the ancient Greeks; but the tides were too strong for the small boats, and we remained an extra day on Mikonos. The larger tourist vessel, the Jupiter, couldn't get in close enough to take us on, so we boarded a smaller vessel and chased the Ju- piter all night, arriving in Rhodes the next morning where we transferred our luggage to the Jupiter. Rhodes was a very interesting place, and we enjoyed going through the castles of the Crusaders. It was here that the Colossus of Rhodes - a gigantic statue of brass - stood astride the entrance to the harbor. It too was one of the wonders of the world, but was de- stroyed for its metal centuries ago.

That night we sailed for Crete and landed the next morning in Herak- lion. Crete was one of the most interesting places on our trip, to me, as it was here that King Minos reigned. He lived in the palace of Knossos, which was excavated and partially reconstructed by Evans in the 1890's. This palace once again showed me how much was known by our early ancestors. The architects who built it must have been pretty sharp: they must have worked from blueprints-drawings, that is. There are three separate water systems - one for fresh water, one for sewage and one for roof drainage - that are built into the walls and under the floors, indicat- ing that they were designed before the building was built. The queen's chamber had a bathtub in it and a running water toilet. Fresh water was carried from a spring up the mountain, down and across a canyon that was much lower and then up the plateau where the palace was. Thus the principle of water seeking its own level was understood long before Pascal demonstrated it with his famous vases. Interesting enough, this palace was largely built with columns of gypsum, which is one of the softest min- erals (No. 2 on the hardness scale). I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it. I also learned that the gymnastic events which are still used and which involve a leather "horse" are a modern adaptation of an ancient Cretan sport. Both young men and young women would let a sacred bull run toward them, jump up, catch his horns and somersault over his back to the ground. That is still one of the gymnastic exercises, differing only in that the gymnast runs at the "horse," grabs the two handholds on the top of it-equivalent to the bull's horns-and down on the other side,