Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...but before sailing away from it shouted and called to the crew, when, as no one returned an answer, they took their departure. But as all 1 Arrian gives their length at 25 orgyiai, or about 150 feet. Compare with this passage regarding the whales Onesikritos (frag. 30), and Orthagoras in Aelian (Hist. Anim. xvii. 6); Diodor. (xvii. 106); Q. Curtius (x. 1, 11). blamed the island for the loss of the men, Nearchos tells, us that he himself sailed to it, and having anchored, disembarked with a part of his crew and made a circuit of the island. But as he could find no trace of the men of whom he was in search, he gave up the task and returned. He informed his men that the island was not to blame for the misfortune (for were it so, the same destruction would have overtaken himself and those who disembarked with him), but that some other cause, and countless others were possible, might have caused the disappearance of the vessel.1 14. Karmania is the last part of the sea-coast which begins from the Indus, but it lies much farther north than the mouth of that river. Its first promontory projects southward into the Great Sea. This, after forming the mouth of the Persian Gulf in the direction of the Cape, which projects from Arabia the Happy, and which is visible from it, bends towards the Persian Gulf, and is continued until it touches Persis. Karmania is of i great extent in the interior, where it lies between Gedr6sia and Persis, but it stretches more to the north than Gedrosia. Its great fertility shows this, for it produces everything, has trees of large growth, except however the olive, and is watered by numerous streams. Gedrosia, on the other hand, differs but little from the country of the Ichthyophagoi, so that it frequently fails to...
