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l8o THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. and the shields of the gold of the land of China.' And again the king of China brought for <strong>Alexander</strong> one hundred shrines (?) of gold, upon [the backs of] wild asses; and five hundred men-servants and maid-servants, the like of which existed not — and glory be to God Who created them!—and one thousand iron swords and helmets;'' and twenty snakes' horns, each of which was a cubit long.^ Each and all of these things of his possessions did he send away after me borne on camels, and afterwards I wished heartily that I had left him without any of them, but I was afraid [to give them back] lest he should discover who I was, and lest he should seize me, and do unto me according to his desire. Now, although I took all these things against my will, I said unto the bearers of them, "In God's sio'ht all these things "are as nothinsf at all." <strong>Alexander</strong> After these things I returned to my soldiers and ws"'t'ravTis. commanded them to march from that place, and I left behind in that palace which I had begun to build of cedar* wood, and which they were ornamenting with precious stones, certain of my ' This seems to be an addition made by the Ethiopian translator, and the Syriac has no equivalent for the passage. ^ Literally, "places for the head." ^ In the Syriac (p. 112) the gifts are— 1000 talents, 10,000 pieces of undyed silks, 5000 brocaded silks, 200 cane figures, 100 painted (?) skins, 1000 Indian swords, 5 wild horses, 1000 skins of musk, 10 snakes' horns. * Read -I'^'Ctl •
'ALEXANDRIA THE LESS" FOUNDED. 161 friends that they might finish the building thereof, and so make a memorial of me [which should endure] until God shall inherit the earth and all that there is upon it. Now I had already founded one city in the land of Egypt, and I had called it "Alexandria the Great", and this smaller city I called "Alexandria the Less".' Then we turned away from the mountains, and we departed and marched through a desert country and through hollows and ravines for fifteen^ nights, and we found in that region flocks of goats which had heads like unto the heads of wolves. And we also found there flocks of animals, and we took from their thighs bags of musk. And it came to Musk animals. pass that as we were marching through that desert land, behold, we came to [a company of] [p. 103] naked men in whose hearts there existed no mercy, and they gnashed their teeth at us: now they devour their prey like wild beasts. And I was afraid of them, and horror of them came into my heart, for, behold, they had arms in abundance, and they made ready to do battle with us, and when we drew nigh unto them they came out a naked . . to make war against us; and when i had seen^a^ upon 1 1 T 1 1 tribe makes this I cried out against them whilst my soldiers^'''"''"' formed themselves round about^ me. Then my soldiers charged into them and they were defeated by them, and God Almighty prevented them from ' The Syriac has no equivalent for this passage. = In the Syriac "twelve days" 3 Read ?h(0'.^.\
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