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This division of H.'s work describes the Persian empire as organized by Darius; it consists of two parts, very unequal in length and in authenticity; cc. 89-96 give an official statistical account of the Empire (cf. App. VII and vii. 61 n.); cc. 97-117 describe the more remote dependencies and are largely made up of travellers' tales. Holdich (Gates of India, 1909, p. 17) writes: ‘twenty-five years ago our military information concerning ethnographical distributions in districts immediately beyond the north-west frontier was not better’ (than that in H.), and ‘the tribes have mostly survived to bear valuable testimony to the knowledge of the East in the days of H.’

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