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CONTENTS. , omc effect.- - Comfortable quarters of the Greeks. They halt lo repel the cavalry, and then marcli fast onward. Victory of the Greeks prowess of Xenophon. The Greeks embarrassed as to their route impossibility either of following the Tigris farther, or of crossing it. The strike into the mountains of the Karduchians. They burn much of their baggage their sufferings from the activity and energy of the Karduchians. Extreme danger of their situation. Xenophon rinds out another road to turn the enemy's position. The Karduchians are de- feated and the road cleared. Danger of Xenophon with the rear division and baggage. anxiety of the Greeks to recover the bodies of the slain They reach the river Kentrites, the northern boundary of Karduchia. Difficulties of passing the Kentrites dream of Xenophon. They discover a ford and pass the river. Xenophon with the rear-guard re- pels the Karduchians and effects his passage. March through Armenia. Heavy snow and severe cold. They ford the Eastern Euphrates or Murad. Distressing marches extreme misery from cold and hunger. Rest in good quarters subterranean villages well stocked with pro- visions. After a week's rest, they march onward their guide runs away. They reach a difficult pass occupied by the Chalybes raillery exchanged between Xenophon and Cheirisophus about stealing. They turn the pass by a flank-march, and force their way over the mountain March through the country of the Taochi exhaustion of provisions capture of a hill-fort. Through the Chalybes, the bravest fighters whom they had yet seen the Skythini. They reach the flourishing city of Gymnias. First sight of the sea from the mountain-top The- ches extreme delight of the soldiers. Passage through the Makrones. Through the Kolchians who oppose them and are defeated. Kol- chian villages unwholesome honey. Arrival at Trapezus on the Euxine (Trebizond). Joy of the Greeks their discharge of vows to their gods their festivals and games. Appendix 52-120 CHAPTER LXXI. MIOCEEDINGS OF THE TEN THOUSAND GREEKS, FROM THE TIME THAT THEY REACHED TRAPEZUS, TO THEIR JUNCTION WITH THE LACEDE- MONIAN ARMY IN ASIA MINOR. Greek cities on the Euxine Sinope with her colonies Kerasus, Kotyora, and Trapezus. Indigenous inhabitants their relations with the Greek colonists. Feelings of the Greeks on the Euxine when the Ten Thou- sand descended among them. Uncertainty and danger of what they might do. Plans of the army Cheirisophus is sent to Byzantium to procure vessels for transporting them. Regulations for the army pro- posed by Xenophon during his absence. Adopted by the army their intense repugnance to farther marching. Measures for procuring trans, ports. Marauding expeditions for supplies, against the Colchians and the Drilffi. The army leave Trapezus, and march westward along the coast to Kerasus. Acts of disorder and outrage committed by various sol- diers near Kerasus. March to Kotyora hostilities with the Mosynce- ki. Long halt at Kotyora remonstrance from the Sinopians. Speech of Hekatonymus of Sinope to the army reply of Xenophon. Success of the reply good understanding established with SinopS.