Darius the Great

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Jacob Abbott. Darius the Great

Darius the Great

Table of Contents

PREFACE

ENGRAVINGS

DARIUS THE GREAT

Chapter I

Cambyses

B.C. 530–524

Chapter II

The End of Cambyses

B.C. 523–522

Chapter III

Smerdis the Magian

B.C. 520

Chapter IV

The Accession of Darius

B.C. 520

Chapter V

The Provinces

B.C. 520

Chapter VI

The Reconnoitering of Greece

B.C. 519

Chapter VII

The Revolt of Babylon

B.C. 516–514

Chapter VIII

The Invasion of Scythia

B.C. 513

Chapter IX

The Retreat from Scythia

B.C. 513

Chapter X

The Story of Histiæus

B.C. 504

Chapter XI

The Invasion of Greece and the. Battle of Marathon

B.C. 512–490

Chapter XII

The Death of Darius

B.C. 490–485

The End

Footnotes

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Jacob Abbott

Makers of History

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Account of Herodotus.

The great difficulty to be encountered in traversing the deserts which Cambyses would have to cross on his way to Egypt was the want of water. To provide for this necessity, the king of the Arabs sent a vast number of camels into the desert, laden with great sacks or bags full of water. These camels were sent forward just before the army of Cambyses came on, and they deposited their supplies along the route at the points where they would be most needed. Herodotus, the Greek traveler, who made a journey into Egypt not a great many years after these transactions, and who wrote subsequently a full description of what he saw and heard there, gives an account of another method by which the Arab king was said to have conveyed water into the desert, and that was by a canal or pipe, made of the skins of oxen, which he laid along the ground, from a certain river of his dominions, to a distance of twelve days' journey over the sands! This story Herodotus says he did not believe, though elsewhere in the course of his history he gravely relates, as true history, a thousand tales infinitely more improbable than the idea of a leathern pipe or hose like this to serve for a conduit of water.

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