. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. committed this task to an officer so high in rank, and fiiend; but tlie earnestness of Nearchus, and the backwardness of all the others,left him at length no alternative. The voyage down the Indus was brilliant. Alexander conveyed his army in a crowdedfleet of two thousand vessels. The sound of the numberless oars, echoed by the surroimd-ing woods, as they floated down this majestic stream, excited the admiring gaze of tliejjatives, Alexander even accompani
. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. committed this task to an officer so high in rank, and fiiend; but tlie earnestness of Nearchus, and the backwardness of all the others,left him at length no alternative. The voyage down the Indus was brilliant. Alexander conveyed his army in a crowdedfleet of two thousand vessels. The sound of the numberless oars, echoed by the surroimd-ing woods, as they floated down this majestic stream, excited the admiring gaze of tliejjatives, Alexander even accompanied his admiral down the Delta of the Indus, and took Book I, VOYAGE OF NEARCHUS. 25 a view of the ocean, after which he returned, to lead his army by a most perilous and diffi-cult route through Gedrosia and Karamania to Babylon. Nearchus now began his arduous naval route {Fig. 3.),after the usual antique preparation Fig. 3—MAP OF THE VOYAGE OF NEARCHUS. ? 45 50 65 60 65 70 1 \. of sacrifices and games. At the mouth of the river appeared a most fomnidable obstacle, arock barring the passage, and against which the waves broke with ftiry. This was sur-mounted by cutting a canal across the softest part of the rock, through which the vesselswere able to pass at full tide. He then passed the sandy island of Krokali (Corachie,)and Mount Eirus (Cape Monze,) when, being now in the open ocean, a series of galesbegan, so heavy and continued, as obliged him to seek the shelter of an excellent harbourformed by an island called Bibacta. The crews here landed, threw up an entrenchmentto defend themselves against the natives, and remained for twenty-three days, subsistingchiefly on shell-fish. The wind having abated, they set sail, and came to a coast wherewater, of which they appear to have needed almost daily supplies, was only to be got bygoing several miles up into the country. They then passed between a range of rocks, soclose to each other, that the oars struck agains
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