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

612 SAMBUS AND THE BRAHMINS.killed.There were some elephants here, which were addedto the already large herd. The other towns, numerous andmostly large and wealthy, submitted, for the Indians werecowed by Alexander's apparently superhuman successes.is difficult to identify these cities.ItThey are all in ruins, andthere have been few to investigate the contents of the ruinedmounds. In this locality, General Cunningham is still followedas the most reliable guide.From this place Alexander was compelled to hasten againstSambus, a king who had come far up stream to tender fealty,whom he had made viceroy of the mountaineer Indians, andsent back home with favor.Sambus had long been at warwith Musicanus, which fact had induced him to submit toAlexander in the hope that he would thus gain the uppei'hand,but when Musicanus was pardoned and received into the king'sconfidence, under theidea that he himself would now be thesufferer on account of the enmity of his ancient foe, he concludedto revolt from his newly-acknowledged master. OnAlexander's approach, however, Sambus fled across the Indus,and his people opened the gates of his capital city, Siudomana(modern Sehwan), now on theIndus, but then sixtyfivemiles from the river.Sindomana was situated on a highrock, near a large lake, and in the midst of plenty ;and wasa city of the first importance. Alexander now returned tohis fleet, left on the Indus below Alor.He next moved against Harmatelia, a city of the Brahmins(modern Brahmanabad), near by the Indus. This wascaptured by the digging of a subterranean passage by whichthe soldiers entered the town under the walls. A number ofcitizens were punished with utmost severity for instigatingthis revolt. It was while he was conducting this campaignthat Alexander learned to his surprise that Musicanus hadlikewise revolted and put the Macedonian garrison to the