 | 1747 - 674 pagine
...prove favourable. Alexander therefore, failing through this branch of the Indus, fought on the feicoaft for bays and creeks, where his fleet might anchor...his people ; and took all imaginable precautions for preferving them in eafe and fafetv, till the feafon would allow them to continue their voyage. In this... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 422 pagine
...favourable. Alexander, therefore, failing through this branch of the Indus, fought on the fea-coall for bays and creeks, where his fleet might anchor...fafety ; he caufed alfo pits to be funk, which might be rilled with frrfh water for the ufe of his people ; and took all imaginable precautions for preferving... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 816 pagine
...favourable. Alexander, therefore, failing through this branch of the Indus, fought on the fea coaft for bays and creeks, where his fleet might anchor...caufed alfo pits to be funk, which might be filled with freih water for the ufe of his people ; and took all imaginable precautions for preferving them in... | |
 | 1823 - 856 pagine
...anchor in safety ; he c<utbed also pits to be sunk, which might be filled with fresh water for the me of his people ; and took all imaginable precautions for preserving them in ease and safety till the season •would allow them to continue their voyage. In this he succeeded... | |
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Indus, fought on the feicoaft for bays and creeks, where his fleet might anchor in fafety ; he caufed alfo pits to be funk, which might be filled with... 