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The Commerce and Navigation of the Erythræan Sea
The Commerce and Navigation of the Erythran Sea Author:Flavius Arrianus Subtitle: Being a Tr. of the Periplus Maris Erythræi, and of Arrian's Account of the Voyage of Nearkhos, by J.w. Mccrindle. Repr., With Additions, From the Indian Antiquary General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1879 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be... more » typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE VOYAGE OF NEARKHOS, FROM THE INDUS TO THE HEAD OF THE PERSIAN GULF, AS DESCRIBED IN THE SECOND PART OF THE INDIKA OF ARRIAN, (Fuo. M Chapter XVIII. To The End.) TRANSLATED PROM MULLER'S EDITION (An given in the Oeoyraphi Qraci Minores : Paris, 1866). WITH INTROOUCTION ANO NOTES. THE VOYAGE OF NEARKHOS. Introduction. The coasting voyage from the mouth of the Indus to the head of the Persian Gulf, designed by Alexander the Great, and executed by Nearkhos, may be regarded as the most important achievement of the ancients in navigation. It . opened up, as Vincent remarks, a communication between Europe and the-most distant countries of Asia, and, at a later period, was the source and origin of the Portuguese discoveries, and consequently the primary cause, however remote, of the British establishments in India. A Journal of this voyage was written by Nearkhos himself, which, though not extant in its original form, has been preserved for us by Arriau, who embodied its contents in his little work on India,1 which he wrote as a sequel to his history of the expodition of Alexander. Nearkhos as a writer must be acknowledged to be most scrupulously honest and exact, -- for the result of explorations made in modern timea along the shores which he passed in the course of his voyage shows that his description of them is accurate even in the most minute particulars. His veracity was nevertheless oppugned in ancient times by Strabo, ...« less