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his death took place. Modern geography enumerates no city near 

 that spot at all corresponding to either of these Greek appel- 

 latives. 



After staying a short time to refresh his army in the kingdom of 

 Porus, Alexander marched, with a considerable part of his army, 

 into the adjacent territory of the Glausae, situated north-east of that 

 kingdom ; and in this march we find a striking proof of the astonish- 

 ing wealth and population of India, when undisturbed by foreign in- 

 vasion, and its inhabitants are left to be cherished and protected by 

 their own mild laws and the liberal spirit of their native princes ; 

 for, those territories are said by Arrian to have contained thirty- 

 seven large cities, many of them having ten thousand inhabitants, 

 with a vast number of villages, proportionably populous. These 

 were taken possession of without the least resistance from the peace- 

 able inhabitants ; (for, how should a race, absorbed in agriculture 

 and commerce, cope with the armed veterans of Greece ?) and the 

 sovereignty of the whole region conferred on Porus. Abissares, 

 also, king of a northern tribe of mountaineers, called in the language 

 of modern India Gehkers, or Kakares*, an ally of Porus, sent 

 ambassadors, offering ample presents of elephants and money, and 

 the unconditional surrender of his kingdom. The king, perhaps 

 mistrustful of his real intentions, commanded that Abissares should 

 attend him in person, or he should pay him a visit in his native 

 mountains. On the mountains in the neighbourhood of the Hy- 

 daspes were lofty woods, which Alexander ordered to be cut down, 

 and, of the timber, a great number of vessels to be formed, with 

 which it was his intention, on his return, to sail down the Indus into 

 the ocean. The Assaceni, having again revolted, Philip was dis- 

 patched to reduce them, and Craterus being appointed to super- 



* Kennel's Memoir, p. 93. 



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