Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

2 26 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
he drew nigh unto it that the waves of the sea
leapt up upon them, and the sea swallowed them
up, and they all perished while Alexander and
his soldiers were looking on. When the Two-
horned saw this he was afraid of the sea with a
mighty fear, and he turned back, knowing that he
was unable to [pass over] it to the darkness which
he expected [to discover] there. Now he found
that the sun rose over that sea, and that it went
forth over it for one hour, and [again] at noontide.
And beyond that sea, when the sun riseth on them,
multitudes of men flee into the habitations which
they have made in the mountains [p. 129], and
some of them rush into the water throug-h their
Intense heat fear of the heat of the sun, and again some,
' whether they be men or beasts, when the sun is
burning hot with fire, may be found lying with
their faces to the ground. And the sun goeth
down in his place in the west' without fire and
flame, and he travelleth all night until he riseth
.again in the place of his rising yesterday. These
are the things which Alexander discovered con-
cerning the sun at his times of rising and setting.
The river
Musas.
And near the place where the sun setteth in
the west Alexander found also a mighty river
which is called Musas.' And he turned and went
' In the Syriac version (p. 148) it is said that when the
sun enters the window of heaven, he straightway bows down
and makes obeisance before God his Creator.
^ In the Syriac Alexander comes to a mountain called
"the great Musas". On the identity of this mountain with