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the best. In fact, it was the only road. In any
other direction eastward was the great desert.
Eastward, then, he certainly did go. Where would that
road take him? Certainly to Arya,
that country after which we call our supposed race,
the Aryans. What route he would have gone from there
is not quite so evident. Alexander here turned to the
south and after penetrating the desert was
obliged to turn back again. However, one thing
is certain; Pythagoras must in some way
have got down through Afghanistan and Beluchistan
to the mouth of the Indus and must
there have taken passage home by way of
Suez. All this is absolutely forced upon us
from the moment that we assent to the
proposition that Pythagoras was captured

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