able of the ascetics dismissed his invitation scornfully: if Alexander called himself the son of God he was equally the son of God; there was nothing he desired that was in Alexander's power to give; he had all he wanted, and when he died he would be delivered from the irksome companionship of the body, whereas Alexander and his men wandered about and got no good from their wanderings. Nevertheless one of the ascetics, called Kalyana, yielded; he gave up his way of life and joined the Macedonians. Alexander made him his friend. He went as far as Persia; but gradually the alien mode of his life so distressed and encumbered his spirit that he became ill and determined to die. Alexander sought in vain to dissuade him. But at last he reluctantly gave his consent. A great pyre was built; and with a completensss of misunderstanding, characteristic of the West, Alexander thought to mitigate for his friend the pangs of leaving this beautiful world by ordering a procession of precious things and all kinds of incense
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