BOOK VI. xxin. 74-77 



inhabitants of the other side of this mountain work 

 a wide range of gold and silver mines. Next to 

 these come the Oratae, whose king has only ten 

 elephants but a large force of infantry, the 

 Suarataratae — these also though ruled by a king 

 do not keep elephants but rely on cavalry and 

 infantr}' — the Odonbaeoraes and the Arabastrae, 

 whose fine city Thorax is guarded by marshy canals 

 which crocodiles, creatures wth an insatiable 

 appetite for human flesh, render impassable save 

 by way of a bridge. Another town in their country 

 is also highly spoken of, Automula, which is situated 

 on the coast at the point of confluence of five rivers, 

 and has a celebrated market ; their king possesses 

 1600 elephants, 150,000 foot and 5000 horse. The 

 king of the Charmae is not so wealthy, having 60 

 elephants and small forces of the other kinds. The 

 race next to these is that of the Pandae, the only 

 people in India ruled by queens. They say that 

 only one child of the female sex was born to Hercules, 

 and that she was in consequence his favourite and 

 he bestowed on her a specially large kingdom. 

 The queens deriving their descent from her rule over 

 300 towns, and have an army of 150,000 foot and 

 500 elephants. After this Ust of 300 cities we have 

 the Derangac, Posingae, Butae, Gogaraei, Umbrae, 

 Nereae, Brangosi, Nobundae, Cocondae, Nesei, 

 Palatitae, Salobriasae and Orostrae, the last people 

 being adjacent to the island of Patala, the distance 

 from the extreme point of which to the Caspian 

 Gates is given as 1925 miles. 



From this point onward the tribes dwelling on the 

 Indus — our enumeration proceeding up stream — 

 are the Mathoae, Bolingae, Gallitalutae, Dimuri, 



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