ike from a soldier, and laid Clitus dead at his feet; but the
moment he saw what he had done, he was hardly withheld from turning the
point against himself, and then he shut himself up in his chamber and
wept bitterly, without coming out or tasting food for three days. He
caused Clitus to be buried with all honours, and offered great sacrifices
to Bacchus, thinking that it was the god's hatred that made him thus pass
into frenzy when he had been drinking wine.

He spent three years in securing his conquest over the Persian empire,
where he won the love of the natives by his justice and kindness, and
founded many cities, where he planted Greeks, and tried to make schools
and patterns for the country round. They were almost all named
Alexandria, and still bear the name, altered in some shape or other; but
though some of his nearer friends loved him as heartily as ever, and many
were proud of him, or followed him for what they could get, a great many
Macedonians hated him for requiring them to set the example of respect,
and laughed at the Eastern forms of state with which he was waited on,
while they were still more angry that he made the Persians their equals,
and not their slaves. So that he had more troubles with the Macedonians
than with the strangers.

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CHAP. XXX.--THE END OF ALEXANDER. B.C. 328.

Before establishing his empire, Alexander longed to survey the unknown
lands further eastwards, and he led his army down the long, terrible
Khybar pass to the banks of the Indus, where he fought a great battle
with an Indian king called Porus, the bravest enemy he had yet met. At
last Porus was defeated and made prisoner. He came to Alexander as if he
were visiting him, and Alexander received him with like courtesy, and
asked if he had any request to make. "None, save to be treated as a
king," said Porus. "That I shall do, for my own sake," said Alexander,
and the two became friends. In this country of the Indus, Alexander
received the submission of thirty-five cities, and founded two more, one
of which he named Bucephala, in honour of his good horse Bucephalus,
which died in the middle of a battle without a wound.

Alexander longed to press on and see all the wonders of India, and the
great river Ganges, but his Macedonians were weary of the march, and
absolutely refused to go any further, so that he was obliged to turn
back, in hopes of collectin