APPENDIX B.
My lamented friend Dr. Moss, of Arctic celebrity, when serving as staff-surgeon on board H. M. S. Research, which for some months in the fall of 1878 lay in the Gulf of Besika, visited me daily in my excavations at Troy. He afterward served as staff-surgeon on board the Atalanta, and with that unfortunate vessel came to an untimely end. Under date of November 5, 1879, he wrote to me from the Atalanta, "My dear Friend: I cannot leave England without asking you—with reference to the most curious object attached to the spears of the warriors depicted on the vase No. 213, p. 133, in your Mycenæ—whether the ancient warriors carried their water-flasks slung on their spears, for the strange object can mean nothing else, I think. If so, we can understand why David took Saul's spear and water-bottle (I. Samuel, xxvi. 11 and 16). I fear I may be suggesting what is perfectly well known."