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Sykes, Ten Thousand Miles in Persia, or Eight Years in Irdn, London, 1902, p. 167. Sykes was the first European to follow the course of Alexander's army across eastern Persia. 76 THE HINDU-ARABIC NUMERALS northwest India and wrote upon his ventures.^ He induced the nations along the Indus to acknowledge the Persian supremacy, and such number systems as there were in these lands would naturally have been known to a man of his attainments. A century after Scylax, Herodotus showed consider- able k...nowledge of India, speaking of its cotton and its gold,2 telling how Sesostris^ fitted out ships to sail to that country, and mentioning the routes to the east. These routes were generally by the Red Sea, and had been followed by the Phoenicians and the Sabseans, and later were taken by the Greeks and Romans.* In the fourth century B.C. the West and East came into very close relations. As early as 330, Pytheas of Mas- silia (Marseilles) had explored as far north as the north- em end of the British Isles and the coasts of the German Sea, while Macedon, in close touch with southern France, was also sending her armies under Alexander ^ through Afghanistan as far east as the Punjab.^ Pliny tells us that Alexander the Great employed surveyors to measure 1 Biihler, Indian BrOhma Alphabet^ note, p.
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