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among the elephants, which, after all, proved very little ; for, the 

 drivers of those animals being for the most part slain, and themselves 

 covered with wounds, carried havoc and destruction with un- 

 distinguishing fury through every part of the field, and proved 

 equally fatal to friends as foes. The Indian horse and infantry, 

 therefore, whom they were principally intended to shield, being 

 crowded together in a confined compass around them, suffered more 

 severely from them than from the Macedonians themselves. The 

 latter, less straitened for room, every where opened their ranks to let 

 them pass, and escaped the danger. As to those of that unwieldy 

 tribe that were more mischievously furious, and still remained on 

 the field, the Greeks, at the risk of their lives, approaching them 

 with axes, clove asunder the sinews of their legs ; and, with long 

 and sharp instruments, curved like scythes, which they had pre- 

 pared beforehand, cut off their trunks, and thus rendered impotent 

 their savage ferocity. 



The Indians, though surrounded by perils from every quarter, 

 on one side trodden down by the elephants and on the other 

 slaughtered by the Macedonians, yet disdained to yield to inferior 

 numbers the palm of victory, and, for a long time, fought, especially 

 the horse, with all that heroic bravery which distinguished their 

 countrymen at Arbela, when the Indian cavalry pierced through 

 the centre of Alexander's line, and plundered the Macedonian 

 baggage. Amidst this mutual and eager contest for glory, Craterus, 

 attentive to the orders of the king to pass the river, when he should 

 see him engaged with Porus, with little obstruction effected a landing 

 on the eastern shore of the Hydaspes at the head of the remainder of 

 the army, which, impatient for action and unexhausted by fatigue, 

 hurried to the field of battle, and, falling on the Indians, em- 

 barrassed by their situation and weakened by their exertions, com- 

 pleted the rout which had already partially began. The tumult and 



