title: A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Cradle of Western Civilization
author:  J. C. McKeown 
description: <br />"The selections are, on the whole, intriguing and often delightful... A Classicist will find much to use, and as a gift to a friend who wonders how the ancients can hold our fascination so thoroughly, this cabinet will surely inform and charm the recipient." --<em>Bryn Mawr Classical Review</em>
zlib_text: INDIA
  IN
  OR,
  GREECE;
  TRUTH IN MYTHOLOGY:
  COXTAIXING
  , SOURCES OF THE HELLE~IC RACE, THE COLONISATIO~ OF EGYPT
  A}fD PALESTDIE, THE WARS OF THE GRAND LA~IA, AND
  THE BUD'HISTIC PROPAIJANDA IN GREECE.
  By E. POCOCKE, ESQ.
  7
  ILLUSTRATED BY
  MAPS OF THE PUNJAB, CASHMIR, AND NORTHERN GREECE.
  LONDON:
  .UBLlSHED BY JOHN J. GRIFFIN AND CO.,
  53, BAKER STREET, POBTMAN SQUARE;
  AND RICHARD GRIFFIN AND CO., GLASGOW.
  1852.
  
  LOKD01S":
  BRADBURY
  A~D EVAKS, PRIXTERS, WITITEFRIARS.
  
  TO
  H. H. WILSON, M.A., F.R.S.,
  ETC. ETC.,
  BODEN PROFESSOR OF SANSCRIT I:N THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.
  SIR,
  The pledge made by a stranger, at a casual interview,
  characterised on your part by much urbanity, of distinctly
  tracing to their true sources the "Pilgrim Fathers" of the
  Hellenic Race, is thus far redeemed.
  To you, Sir, as the
  honoured
  TRI-cALA
  of
  Oriental
  Literature,
  this
  Historical
  Sketch of the fortunes of the Western Pandions of Athens,
  the Hellenes or Chiefs of the Hela in Greece, the Cashmirians of
  Breotia, and of the T