The Indian Gold Hunter.
Chapter VI.
The Reconnoitering of Greece.
B.C. 519
The reconnoitering party.
The great event in the history of Darius—the one, in fact, on account of which it was, mainly, that his name and his career have been so widely celebrated among mankind, was an attempt which he made, on a very magnificent scale, for the invasion and conquest of Greece. Before commencing active operations in this grand undertaking, he sent a reconnoitering party to examine and explore the ground. This reconnoitering party met with a variety of extraordinary adventures in the course of its progress, and the history of it will accordingly form the subject of this chapter.
The physician Democedes.
Story of Democedes.
His boyhood.