इस प्रकार अनेक प्रमाणों द्वारा यह दिखाया जा सकता है कि हिन्दू लोग समुद्र-यात्रा में बड़े प्रवीण थे। रोम के टोसिट्स नामक इतिहासवेत्ता ने हिन्दुओं को समुद्र-यात्रा और उनके व्यापार-वाणिज्य के विषय में जो कुछ लिखा है उसका अँग्रेज़ी अनुवाद हम नीचे देते हैं―
Pliny, the elder, relates the fact, after Cornelius Nepos, who, in his account of a voyage to the North, says, that in the Consulship of Quintus Meteullus Celer, and Lucius Afranius [A.U.C.694, before Christ 60] certain Indians, who had embarked on the commercial voyage, were cast on the coast of Germany, and given as a present by the king of the Sulvians to Meteullus, who was at that time Governor of the Gaul. The work of Cornelius Nepos has not come down to us, and Pliny, as it seems, has abridged too much. The whole tract would have furnished a considerable event in the history of Navigation. At present we are left to conjecture whether the Indian adventurers sailed round the Cape of Good Rope, through the Atlantic Ocean, and thence into the Northern Seas, or whether they made a voyage still more extraordinary passing the Island of Japan, the coast of Siberia, Kamschtska, Zembla in the Frozen Ocean, and hence round Lapland and Norway, either into
