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The Carmanian governor was now liberated and amply rewarded ; 

 the most magnificent sacrifices were gratefully offered to Jupiter, 

 Hercules, and other celestial deities, as well as to Neptune and the 

 inferior gods who reign in the region of waters ; splendid sports were 

 exhibited, at which the king himself assisted, and joyfully led the 

 triumphal train ; and Nearchus, after being publicly crowned with 

 chaplets of flowers, and having received the ardent thanks of his 

 sovereign for his zeal and perseverance, was dispatched to the sea- 

 shore, with orders to prosecute his voyage, and again to join his 

 enraptured sovereign in the province of Susa. 



On Alexander's first entrance into Carmania, he was joined by 

 Craterus with the invalids and the elephants, whom, we before ob- 

 served, he had dispatched westward from the Indus through the 

 more practicable country of Arachosia and Drangiana. These, with 

 the greater part of the army, the elephants, camels, and other beasts 

 of burthen, Avere now ordered to proceed, under the command of 

 Hephaestion, to Susa, by the way of the sea-coast, not only because 

 that region of Carmania was the most favourable for a winter-march, 

 but that they might be at hand to render every possible assistance 

 to the fleet, and occasionally be assisted by them. The king himself, 

 with a considerable body of light troops, infantry and cavalry, took 

 the road to Pasargadse, in Persia, to visit the tomb of Cyrus, which 

 had been plundered of immense wealth, to punish the robbers, and 

 settle the affairs of that province and Media. He then returned to 

 meet the fleet at Susa, to the farther progress of which we must 

 now return, though only to notice its transactions with the brevity 

 proposed. 



Nearchus, having but a slender guard with him, and the Carma- 

 nians not being wholly subdued, encountered some difficulties before 

 he regained the part of the coast where his fleet lay ; but having at 

 length reached it, having also offered sacrifices to Jupiter Soter for 



