BOOK VI. XXIII. 72-74 



of 1240 niiles according to the most moderate 

 accounts, and it discharges into the ocean after 

 following the sun's course in some measure westward. 

 I will give the measurement of the coast-Hne to thc 

 mouth of the river by stages as I find it, although 

 none of the various reports of it agree with one 

 another ; from the mouth of the Ganges to the Cape 

 of the CaUngae and the town of Dandaguda 625 miles, 

 to Tropina 1225 miles, to the Cape of Perimula, where 

 is the most celebrated trading-place of India, 750 

 miles, to the town of Patala on the island which 

 we have mentioned above, 620 miles. 



Between the Indus and the Jimina are the 

 mountain tribes of the Caesi, the forester Caetriboni, 

 and then the Megallae (whose king possesses 500 

 elephants and an uncertain number of infantry and 

 cavalry), the Chrysei, the Parasangae and the 

 Asmagi, whose district is infested by the wild tiger; 

 they have an armed force of 30,000 foot, 300 elephants 

 and 800 cavalry. They are bounded by the river 

 Indus and surrounded by a ring of mountains and 

 by deserts. Below the deserts at a distance of 625 

 milcs are the Dari and Surae, and then descrt again 

 for a distance of 187 miles, these pkices for the 

 most part being surromided by sands exactly as 

 islands are surrounded by the sea. Below these 

 deserts are the Maltaecorae, Singae, Moroae, 

 Rarungae and Moruni. These peoples are the 

 inhabitants of the mountains that stretch in a 

 continuous range on the coast of the ocean ; they 

 are free people having no kings, and they occupy 

 the mountain slopes with a number of cities. Next 

 come the Nareae, who are shut in by the Capitaha 

 range, the highest of the mountains of India. The 



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