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grant that pardon : he entered and staid some time in his splendid 

 capital, the beauty and magnificence of which he greatly admired ; 

 and then returned the government of it into his own hands. Before 

 he left it, however, as it was his intention to establish a chain of forts 

 along the whole descent of the Indus, to secure the future safe navi- 

 gation of that river at once for commercial and political purposes, he 

 erected there a strong citadel, in which, to prevent revolt or innova- 

 tion during a projected excursion into certain of the neighbouring 

 kingdoms not yet subjugated, he left Craterus with a powerful force. 

 In pursuance of this project, the king marched, with all the re- 

 maining forces which he had embarked on board his navy, into the 

 adjacent territory of the Oxycani, plainly recognized in the name 

 and scite of the modern Hajycan, a circar or division of the province 

 of Sindy. The sovereign, or rajah, as we should more properly 

 call him, of that territory had been guilty of the same heinous 

 crime with the king of the Musicani, in delaying to send ambassa- 

 dors or presents to pacify the unprovoked invader of their country ; 

 and, before he could have time to retrieve the fatal error, Alexander, 

 whose constant aim was to intimidate by the vigour and rapidity 

 of his motions, carried by assault two of his principal cities, in one of 

 which the unfortunate prince himself was. found in arms, taken pri- 

 soner, and, as we hear nothing farther concerning him, probably fell 

 the victim of his temerity. Of these cities, Alexander gave to his 

 soldiers the unlimited plunder, securing to himself the elephants of 

 the deceased prince. The terror of this example operated with the 

 inhabitants of all the cities of that district to make that immediate 

 submission, which could alone obtain safely to their persons and 

 security to their property. The Oxycani, thus completely subju- 

 gated, he marched against Sambus, sovereign of the region of Sindo- 

 mana, in which appellation we immediately recognize the province 

 of Sindy, or that through which the river Sinde rlows in the lower 



