3-028-182 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mount Pentelicus, from the height above Marathon, near the haunt of the Greek brigands, 1870. Engraving of a sketch by Harry Johnson. '...the complete narrative of the seizure and subsequent murder of four English gentlemen by the Greek firm of Arvanataki Brothers and Co., appeared in our last Number...we now give a view of Mount Pentelicus, over the eastern and southern slopes of which our unfortunate countrymen were dragged by their captors...The Foreign Office has [published] additional correspondence..., including the brief notes made daily by Mr. Lloyd in his notebook...which show that he and his companions, though not wantonly ill-treated by the brigands, suffered much from cold and wet, from fatigue, and from bad food. There are also the reports made officially by Colonel Theagenis, by the British Consul, and by Mr. A. Bolton, surgeon of the Cockatrice, and the evidence of Alexander, the Greek dragoman, to show the manner in which the Englishmen were put to death...The Greek soldiers cut off the heads of the seven brigands whom they killed in the fight of the 22nd, and brought them to Athens. Photographs of these ghastly trophies have been offered for sale in London shop-windows. This is not in very good taste'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.