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had taken, and, soon after, the latter of these confederated people, 

 finding farther opposition hopeless, sent a deputation of their chiefs, 

 offering the well-known price of peace with Alexander, the un- 

 conditional surrender of themselves and their country. The terms 

 were accepted, and those chiefs directed to collect their scattered 

 inhabitants, and induce them to return to the deserted villages, under 

 the positive assurances that obedience should secure them safety 

 and protection. He appointed Apollophanes governor of the 

 country of the Oritae, and ordered Leonnatus, with a large division 

 of the army, both horse and foot, to remain with him till the 

 arrival of the fleet under Nearchus, for which he was directed to 

 provide every possible accommodation ; in short, to do what Alex- 

 ander himself had personally intended to have done, had circum- 

 stances proved more auspicious, and had there not existed a neces- 

 sity for entirely subjugating the turbulent savage tribes of Gedrosia. 

 He was also directed to superintend the building of the new Alex- 

 andria, and invite the people of Arachosia and all the neighbouring 

 districts northward to come and reside in it, under the protection 

 of the Greeks. 



Having thus left with those commanders his final instructions, 

 with the remainder of the army he commenced that toilsome march 

 through Gedrosia, on which some observations have already oc- 

 curred, and with a few additional strictures on which this volume 

 will terminate. As we have now wholly left Indian ground, and as 

 the progress of the fleet to Mesopotamia has been so ably and mi- 

 nutely detailed by the author often cited above, a very summary 

 narration of the principal events that befel the army and the fleet 

 on their return can alone be inserted in these concluding pages. 

 With whatever stigma of imprudence the preceding historians of 

 Alexander have branded this march through Gedrosia, they all unite 

 in affirming, that, amidst every dreadful accumulation of human 



