e, besides twenty-seven thousand armed
chariots.

He began his expedition by invading AEthiopia, situated to the south of
Egypt. He made it tributary, and obliged the nations of it to furnish him
annually with a certain quantity of ebony, ivory, and gold.

He had fitted out a fleet of four hundred sail, and ordering it to advance
to the Red-Sea, made himself master of the isles and cities lying on the
coasts of that sea. He himself heading his land army, overran and subdued
Asia with amazing rapidity, and advanced farther into India than Hercules,
Bacchus, and in after-times Alexander himself, had ever done; for he
subdued the countries beyond the Ganges, and advanced as far as the Ocean.
One may judge from hence how unable the more neighbouring countries were
to resist him. The Scythians, as far as the river Tanais, as well as
Armenia, and Cappadocia, were conquered. He left a colony in the ancient
kingdom of Colchos, situated to the east of the Black Sea, where the
Egyptian customs and manners have been ever since retained. Herodotus saw
in Asia Minor, from one sea to the other, monuments of his victories. In
several countries was read the following inscription engraven on pillars:
"Sesostris, king of kings, and lord of lords, subdued this country by the
power of his arms." Such pillars were found even in Thrace, and his empire
extended from the Ganges to the Danube. In his expeditions, some nations
bravely defended their liberties, and others yielded them up without
making the least resistance. This disparity was denoted by him in
hieroglyphical figures, on the monuments erected to perpetuate the
remembrance of his victories, agreeably to the Egyptian practice.

The scarcity of provisions in Thrace stopped the progress of his
conquests, and prevented his advancing farther in Europe. One remarkable
circumstance is observed in this conqueror, who never once thought, as
others had done, of preserving his acquisitions; but contenting himself
with the glory of having subdued and despoiled so many nations; after
having made wild havoc up and down the world for nine years, he confined
himself almost within the ancient limits of Egypt, a few neighbouring
provinces excepted; for we do not find any traces or footsteps of this new
empire, either under himself or his successors.

He returned therefore laden with the spoils of the vanquished nations,
dragging after him a numberless multitude of captives, and covered with
great