Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

'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'.^.\