Note 28 — Chapter I · THE FABLE AND ITS INTERPRETATION.
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Unfortunately the Journal and Narrative of Nearchus, written B.C. 325-324, are lost, as are also those of Aristobulus, who seems to have been a very accurate observer; and we are indebted to Strabo and Arrian for the summaries and extracts from them that we possess. Strabo’s ‘Geographia’ was completed A.D. 21, about three years before his death. Fabius Arrianus wrote his ‘Historia Indica,’ and ‘Periplus Maris Erythræi,’ which contain valuable particulars of Alexander’s expedition, about A.D. 131-135.