Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c8.9
Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c8.9
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c8.9
Arrian gives a diverting account of the perils which beset the fleet at its start, owing to the tidal bore of the Indus, and also to a school of whales, which, sad to say, nearly proved too much for the nerves of the sturdy Macedonian sailors!