Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

2 28 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
[in which they revolved] in their orbits in years,
and months, and days. Now he had knowledge
of all these things, and he wrote it down and
established it, and he taught it unto the wise men
his friends.
He sets out And after these things Alexander spake unto
north. °his friends, saying, "If God pleaseth, let us go up
"by the way of the north and see what wonderful
"things are there;" and he took four large
and went into the land [p. 130] which is called
Tarikes (Turkistan?),^ and into Martekut, and Rukel,
and Daphar, and Tarmat, and Kanem, and Hur, and
Marik.^ And passing through the mountain which
is called Musas, he came down through them to
a place which is called Nalhemya, and he passed
on from there and travelling on came down to
a very great mountain gate {or pass), wherein were
many large roads by which merchants travel into
the countries which are beyond those mountains.
Then the Two-horned commanded that a herald
should go round about among his soldiers, and
and their influences on human life were carefully studied
and instruments for their observation, etc., were devised -^^
UJ c:-.L»4_3 ^MiNJl o^y^ U^'^^^ f^^"^ J>iJl yiJ^i ^>
^U)l L_>y3 ^1 Lilli ^ t—j^Sj Cj^I^* SeeMas'udt, tom.I.p.83.
' The Syriac has (p. 149)^ "Let us go forth by the way
of the north; and they came to the confines of the north,
and entered Armenia, and Adhorbaijan and Inner Armenia";
"hCT^ • we should probably correct into haTTr^ -
^ In the Syriac, Tfirnagios.
3 In the Syriac, Beth-Pardia, Beth-Tekil, Beth-Drub!l, Beth-
Katarmen, Beth-Gebul, Beth-Zamrat.
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