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国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| Overland to India : vol.2 | |
| インドへの陸路 : vol.2 |
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ALEXANDER'S MARCH 205
Arabs was in a more flourishing condition than in the age of Alexander. At any rate, his exposition implies no deterioration of climate within historic times.
In this connection it is interesting to hear what Lieutenant, afterwards Sir Henry, Pottinger has to say about Alexander's march, for Pottinger crossed southern Baluchistan in several directions exactly a hundred years ago, and was able to give an opinion on the Macedonian campaign from his own experience. He speaks first of Alexander's departure from Patala, and of his penetration into Gedrosia, " in which his troops were thinned by the accumulated hardships of thirst, famine, and fatigue. This march was incontestably to the southward of the Brahooick chain, and had the Greek historians been even less explicit,
I the nature of the country alone must have decided any
R question that might have arisen on this point." Of Cra-
'~ terus he says : " We may besides unequivocally conclude,
I that as that General was purposely detached to shun the
r deserts of Gedrosia (Mukran), he would not shape his It progress through a region in which all the obstacles ki experienced by the divisions headed by the king in person
would have been augmented, by the labour of forcing a
passage among inaccessible cliffs and deep defiles."
" Posterior to the Greek invasion, and the partition of 51 that vast empire, on the demise of Alexander, we meet sL with no further mention of these countries, unless in the 1b unconnected and fabulous legends related of the Guebres
II or ancient Persians. . . . Ninety-two years after the epoch 0 of the Hijree, the Khaliphas of Bagdad, incited by the s combined motives of zeal for the Mohummudan faith, and
s desire to revenge an insult that had been offered to their
dignity by the idolators of Sinde, dispatched an army against
that kingdom by the same route that the Macedonian hero
had selected on his return to Babylon, nearly one thousand °' years antecedent. This force is expressly stated to have d kept close along the sea coast that it might be certain of
d. a supply of water, which is always procurable, by digging ot a foot or two deep in the sandy beach." 1
What different opinions have been held about the
Ii 1 Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde, p. 264.
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