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| Overland to India : vol.2 | |
| インドへの陸路 : vol.2 |
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202 OVERLAND TO INDIA CHAP.
design because of the dangers inevitably connected with
it, he did not shrink from the sacrifices the enterprise 01
would entail, he did not listen to the voice of human it
suffering when an important object was in view ; and if 0
we see nothing but what is grand and justifiable in the r
idea of winning Asia for Hellenic civilization, we must A
also accept the consequences, even if they, according to r
human conceptions, are opposed to what is humane
and possible, and recognize them as of historical im- 0
portance.
In the summer of 325 Alexander had 8o,00o men left. M
Of these at least 30,000 were with Craterus, 30,00o to 0
40,000 with the king, and the remainder, about 12,000 S
men, in the fleet. Droysen's description, based on all 111
available sources, gives a fearful picture of this unfortunate journey. At the beginning all went well, but from the
country of the Ichthyophagi the story runs : " Now the army proceeded farther ; it approached the most terrible parts of the desert ; hunger, misery, and license increased at
a frightful rate. No water for 6o, 90 miles, deep and hot 4
sand, heaped up into great dunes like billows on a stormy r
sea, in which the men sank deeply at every step and 3
struggled on with unspeakable effort, only to begin the
same toil again ; and to these evils were added the darkness ti
of night, the terribly increasing disorder, strength exhausted
to the uttermost by hunger and thirst, or misapplied to
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serve selfish ends. Horses, camels, mules, were slaughtered 1
for food ; the draught animals were unharnessed from
waggons wherein the sick were left to their fate, the only t
anxiety being to get on faster. Whoever lagged behind s
from weariness and want of strength found hardly a trace
of the army in the morning, and if he did he strove in vain 1
to catch it up ; he suffered from dreadful spasms in the i
burning sun or lost his way among the labyrinthine dunes, slowly dying of hunger and thirst. . . . Thus scenes of agony succeeded one another ; and when at length during the subsequent march a violent wind stirred up the sand of the dunes, sweeping away every vestige of path, and the native guides lost their way and no longer knew in which
1 Geschichle Alexanders des Grossen, ch. 8, p. 466.
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