[59] Report of Dr. Leichardt's Expedition, Simmonds' Colonial Magazine, vol. 2, 1845.
[60] London Athenæum. Nov. 3, 1846.
[61] Simmond's Colonial Magazine, Nov. 1846.
[62] Herodotus, in speaking of the subjugation of Lycia, by Cyrus and Harpagus, says; "When Harpagus led his army towards Xanthus, the Lycians boldly advanced to meet him, and, though inferior in numbers, behaved with the greatest bravery. Being defeated and pursued into their city, they collected their wives, children and valuable effects, into the citadel, and there consumed the whole in one immense fire.... Of those who now inhabit Lycia, calling themselves Xanthians, the whole are foreigners, eighty families excepted."—Clio, 176. See also Clio, 171-173.
Herodotus further states that the Lycians originated from the Cretans, a branch of the Hellenic race; and Strabo, in a fragment preserved from Ephorus, states that the Lycians were a people of Greek origin, who had settled in the country previously occupied by the barbarous tribes of Mylians and Solymi.
Homer briefly alludes to the Lycians, who, at the siege of Troy, assisted the Trojans under certain rulers whose names are mentioned.—Iliad, b. v. and xii.
[63] Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. IX.
[64] Ibid. Vol. XV. p. 104.
[65] Wellsted's Travels in Arabia, Vol. I. p. 92.
[66] Particulars read to the meeting of Royal Geographical Society of London, November 9, 1846.—London Ath.