 | Arrian - India - 1884 - 474 pages
...same time for the purpose of conveying provisions near the fleet. The scorching heat and lack of water destroyed a great part of the army, and especially the beasts of burden ; most of which perished from thirst and some of them even from the depth and heat of the sand, because... | |
 | Classical literature - 1896 - 482 pages
...supplied with provisions, induced him to march by this route ; but that the blazing heat and want of water destroyed a great part of the army, and especially...scorched like fire, while a great many died of thirst. For they met, he says, with lofty ridges of deep sand not hard and compact, but so loose that those... | |
 | Classical literature - 1893 - 468 pages
...supplied with provisions, induced him to march by this route ; but that the blazing heat and want of water destroyed a great part of the army, and especially...scorched like fire, while a great many died of thirst. For they met, he says, with lofty ridges of deep sand not hard and compact, but so loose that those... | |
 | Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson - India - 1906 - 618 pages
...obliged to turn, deranged his plans, and compelled him to penetrate far into the interior, and for a tune to lose touch with the fleet. The army suffered agonies...the harbour of Pasni, almost on the line where the telegraph-wire now runs, and its sufferings were at an end. But the soldiers had been obliged " to... | |
 | Science - 1915 - 814 pages
...Alexander's army during this march. Arrian's account states that « the blazing heat and want of water destroyed a great part of the army, and especially...scorched like fire, while a great many died of thirst. For they met with lofty ridges of deep sand not hard and compact, but so loose that those who stepped... | |
 | Hutton Webster - History, Ancient - 1913 - 296 pages
...The way led through the inhospitable regions of Gedrosia. . . . The scorching heat and lack of water destroyed a great part of the army, and especially the beasts of burden. Most of these perished from thirst and some of them even from the depth and heat of the sand, because... | |
 | Hutton Webster, Ph.d - 1913 - 316 pages
...The way led through the inhospitable regions of Gedrosia. . . . The scorching heat and lack of water destroyed a great part of the army, and especially the beasts of burden. Most of these perished from thirst and some of them even from the depth and heat of the sand, because... | |
 | Geography - 1914 - 876 pages
...(1893, pp. 173-5, 263, 298 and 316). Arrian's account states that " the blazing heat and want of water destroyed a great part of the army, and especially...scorched like fire, while a great many died of thirst. For they met, he says, with lofty ridges of deep sand not hard and compact, but so loose that those... | |
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... the blazing heat and want of water destroyed a great part of the army, and especially the beasts of burden, which perished from the great depth of the sand, and the heat which scorched like fire, while a great many died of thirst. 