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Rufus Dawes, impelled, it would seem, by some strong impulse of curiosity, stood erect, and shaded his eyes with his hand. "Well can't you speak? What is it?" "The Hydaspes!" Frere gasped. The Hydaspes! The ship in which his cousin Richard Devine had sailed! The ship for which those in England might now look in vain!
Elated by this success, he is said to have pressed eastward, to have invaded India, and overrun the country as far as the river Hydaspes, but, if it be true that his arms penetrated so far, it is, at any rate, certain that he did not here effect any conquest.
LX. His campaign against king Porus is described at length in his own letters. He tells us that the river Hydaspes ran between the two camps, and that Porus with his elephants watched the further bank, and prevented his crossing.
He saw the two men stare at each other, in mingled incredulity and alarm, and then he was floating down the cool brown river of his boyhood, on his way in company with Sarah Purfoy and Lieutenant Frere to raise the mutiny of the Hydaspes, that lay on the stocks in the old house at Hampstead. The two discoverers of this awkward secret held a council of war.
The Hydaspes which something he had heard during the speculations as to this missing cousin flashed across him. "Back water, men! Round with her! Pull for your lives!" Best's boat glided alongside. "Can you see her name?" Frere, white with terror, shouted a reply. "The Hydaspes! I know her. She is bound for Calcutta, and she has five tons of powder aboard!" There was no need for more words.
When this paper was written he had appeared also in a new opera on 'Almahide, and proceeded to those encounters with the lion in the opera of Hydaspes, by a Roman composer, Francesco Mancini, first produced May 23, 1710, which the Spectator has made memorable. It had been performed 21 times in 1710, and was now reproduced and repeated four times.
Upon the first rumour of this intended combat, it was confidently affirmed, and is still believed, by many in both galleries, that there would be a tame lion sent from the tower every opera night in order to be killed by Hydaspes.
The Hydaspes is still there, although the two towns founded by the Macedonian in remembrance of his victory have long since disappeared. During the morning the aeronef was over Serinuggur, which is better known under the name of Cashmere.
Alexander rested a month on the banks of the Hydaspes, where he celebrated his victory by games and sacrifices, and founded two towns one of which he named Nicaea, and the other Bucephala, in honour of his gallant charger Bucephalus, which is said to have died there.
He says the two armies were separated by the river Hydaspes, on whose opposite bank Porus continually kept his elephants in order of battle, with their heads towards their enemies, to guard the passage; that he, on the other hand, made every day a great noise and clamor in his camp, to dissipate the apprehensions of the barbarians; that one stormy dark night he passed the river, at a distance from the place where the enemy lay, into a little island, with part of his foot, and the best of his horse.
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