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whose decks were covered with enraptured spectators, he con- 

 descendingly waved his hand to them, and smiled, while the high 

 banks and the neighbouring woods resounded with the loudest 

 acclamations of " Long live Alexander ; health and prosperity to the 

 conqueror of Asia ! " When he was sufficiently recovered to mount 

 his horse, these bursts of transport were repeated ; and every one 

 flocked impatiently round him ; some eagerly embracing his knees 

 and his feet, and others happy to touch even the garments of their 

 beloved sovereign ; bearing before him triumphal garlands, and 

 strewing the way with the gaudy flowers that shoot up so luxuriantly 

 after the rains in that delightful region of Asia. At the same time 



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the officers besought him never more to expose himself to similar 

 perils, but to remember, that the duties incumbent on the general 

 and the private soldier are essentially different. Alexander is report- 

 ed, by Arrian, to have been offended by the freedom of these ad- 

 monitions ; but it is impossible to conceive that he had a heart so 

 depraved and callous to the noblest sensibilities of human nature. 



The Malli, defeated in every engagement, and half exterminated, 

 now began to think seriously of making their peace with an enemy, 

 at once so vigorous in his attacks and so superior in the science of 

 war. They, therefore, dispatched heralds to Alexander with offers of 

 that unconditional submission which they had so long and so re- 

 solutely refused. The Oxydracae, or people of Outch, also, finding 

 their efforts to form a junction with their old allies frustrated by the 

 rapid march of the king through that dreary desert, and, in short, 

 that opposition to a power which swept the whole country before 

 it would be utterly ineffectual, reluctantly submitted to their fate, 

 and sent ambassadors to purchase peace with the surrender of those 

 liberties which they so highly prized. Alexander, anxious to ac- 

 complish the greater objects to which war was only subservient, 

 readily accepted the submission of both. The territories of the 



