Alexander : a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from ...

610 CHARACTER OF LOWER INDUS.country here began to change. The high mountain chain onthe west bent away from the river, leaving a more moderaterange in places, andthe Indus widenedinto many channels.Fruitful lowlandslined its banks. Today,as then, thisdistrict is thicklypeopled and thrifty.The main change isin the river itself,which has shifteditscourse to a newand western channel.In the timeswe are speaking ofthe Indus ran inthe bed now calledNara.Alexander madeOxyartes, who hadCampaig'n on the Lower Indus-reported at headquarters,in addition to what he already controlled, the viceroyof all India from the confluence of the Acesines and Industo the coast line, and associated with him Peithon as general,with ten thousand troops. Here, too, Craterus made preparationsto march back to Persis by way of Arachotia and Drangiana,with the invalids and heavy trains. But he appears tohave been delayed, perhaps by the threatened revolt of Musicanus.He apparently started later, but it was from here thatled the road he followed.Below the land of the Sogdians there had been no offer of