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part of its course*. On this point, however, a wide difference also 

 subsists in the geographical decisions of Dr. Vincent and Major 

 Rennel, with which I shall not interfere, but continue the narration 

 principally according to the text of A man. Sambus was the sove- 

 reign of a mountainous tract of country situated near the territory of 

 Musicanus, had previously submitted to Alexander, and been re- 

 stored by him to his dominions ; but, being at open hostility with 

 Musicanus, on finding that prince honoured with the confidence 

 and friendship of the conqueror, he dreaded this additional weight 

 thrown into the scale of his authority, and had taken the precaution 

 of flight. If, however, Sambus could bring into the field such a 

 numerous army as is assigned to him in C urtius, there was no very 

 urgent necessity for so rapid a retreat. According to that historian, 

 Sindomana, the capital city of Sambus, was forcibly entered through 

 a subterraneous passage Avhich the Macedonian miners had carried 

 quite into the heart of the town; and, in the invasion of that country, 

 no less than eighty thousand people were slain, independent of mul- 

 titudes of prisoners. Dreadful devastation is also stated to have been 

 made among the troops of Alexander by the poisoned lances of these 

 savage mountaineers, and, among other brave men, Ptolemy is said 

 to have nearly perished the victim of the deadly venom. The 

 account of Arrian, however, is widely different, who records, that, at 

 Alexander's approach, the gates of that city were spontaneously 

 thrown open, and that the friends and domestics of the absent 

 prince came forth to meet him with magnificent presents and 

 elephants ; and that, on explaining the real motives of the flight of 

 Sambus, the dread of the increased power of his ancient enemy 

 Musicanus, the king was pacified -f-. 



Hence Alexander is stated to have marched against another name- 



* Kennel's Memoir, p. 99. f Arrian, lib. vi. cap. 10. Curtius, lib. ix. cap. 8. 



