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1. Of Caryanda in Caria, was sent by Dareius Hystaspis on a voyage of discovery down the
Indus. Setting out from the city of Caspatyrus and the Pactyican district, Scylax and his
companions sailed down the river to the east and the rising of the sun, till they reached the
sea; from whence they sailed westward through the Indian Ocean to the Red Sea, performing the
whole voyage in thirty months. (