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now on the coast of the Oritae, and had the happiness to meet with 

 Leonnatus, bearing a seasonable supply often days provisions, which 

 his vigilance had collected in that barren region. That officer, after 

 the departure of .Alexander, had been attacked by the barbarians and 

 their allies, but had repulsed them with great slaughter. This for- 

 tunate congress with their countrymen, together with the supply, re- 

 vived the spirits of the fleet. Such of the crews, however, as were 

 dispirited or worn out with their past fatigues, were permitted to 

 rejoin the army ; and others, fresh and vigorous, were drafted from it, 

 who cheerfully supplied their place on board the ships. Thus re- 

 freshed and recruited, the fleet continued its progress with little 

 worthy of notice along the dreary Gedrosian coast to the next im- 

 portant station, Malana, (Cape Moran,) distant above sixteen hun- 

 dred stadia, or about one hundred miles, from the Arabis. They next 

 combated the horrors of a coast inhabited by none but savage Icthyo- 

 phagi, (or fish-eaters,) and extending seven thousand four hundred 

 stadia, or four hundred and fifty miles, in a right line : a coast where 

 they suffered every dreadful variety of human misery, from hunger, 

 which they found nothing but fish and a scanty supply of meat, dis- 

 gusting from its strong fishy flavour, to appease ; and from thirst, 

 which they could only slake with muddy or brackish water. They 

 met, however, at Mosarna, on this coast, with one invaluable blessing, 

 a Gedrosian pilot of gocyi experience in these seas, whose skill and 

 attention diminished the perils of the future voyage, as well as 

 quickened its progress. The termination of this forlorn region and 

 of their miseries they found at Badis, the Cape Jask of our maps, 

 and they now with rapture began to coast along the beautiful and fer- 

 tile shores ot'Carmania, where they found abundance of grain and 

 fruits, and that still greater luxury, the purest water. At length the 

 fleet arrived at the river Anamis, at the mouth of which stood a town, 

 called by the Greeks Harmuzeia, synonymous with the modern 



