Incolae affirmabant, quaecumque demissa essent in cavernam quae propior est fonti rursus ubi aliud os amnis aperitur existere; itaque Alexander boves, qua subeunt aquae terram, praecipitari iubet, quorum corpora, ubi rursus erumpit, expulsa videre qui missi erant ut exciperent.
The natives asserted that whatever articles had been thrown into the cavern which is nearer the rivers source come out where the other mouth of the river opens; therefore Alexander gave orders that oxen be thrown in where the waters go under the earth, and those who were sent to intercept them saw their bodies thrown out where the river bursts forth again.
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