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the vastness of his wcalth may be conjectured. 

 Further up country from these are the Monaedes 

 and the Suari, in whose domain is Mount Maleus 

 upon which shadows fall towards the north in winter 

 and towards the south in summer, for periods of 

 six months alternately. According to Baeton the 

 constellation of the Great Bear is only visible in this 

 region one time in the year, and only for a period of 

 a fortnight ; and Megasthenes says that the same 

 thing occurs in many other places in India. The 

 Indian name for tlieir southern region is Diamasa. 

 The river Jumna runs through the PaUbothri country 

 into the Ganges between the towns of Muttra and 

 Chr}'sobora. In the region to the south of the 

 Ganges the tribes are bro^vTied by the heat of the 

 sun to the extent of being coloured, though not as 

 yet burnt black Uke the Ethiopians ; the nearer they 

 get to the Indus the more colour they display. We 

 come to the Indus immediately after leaving the 

 Prasii, a tribe in whose mountain regions there is said 

 to be a race of Pygmies. Artemidoni'; gives the 

 distance from the Ganges to the Indus as 2100 miles. 



XXIII. The Indus, the native name for which is The indus. 

 Sindus, rises on the east side of a ridge of Mount 

 Caucasus called Hindu Kush ; in its course it receives 

 nineteen tributaries, the best known being the 

 Jhelum which brings with it four other streams, 

 the Cantaba which brings three, and the Chenab 

 and the Beas, themselves navigable rivers. Owing 

 however to a certain Umitation in its supply of water 

 the Indus is nowhere more than 6| miles wide or 

 75 feet deep ; and it forms an island of considerable 

 size named Prasiane and another smaller one named 

 Patale." The main river is navigable for a distance 



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