Some of the substance of the fol lowing chapters was published in 1920 and 1921 in Discovery, to the Editor of which I am grateful for permission to republish them. In a somewhat different form the substance was also published by me in 1914 — 1915 in the National Home Reading Magazine. It is to my friend Dr. Ronald Montagu Burrows that I, in common with thousands, owe my interest in Crete. He died on May 14.