Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

284 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
"from this sea in safety." And again the angel
said unto him, "Dost thou wish that I should shew
The angel "thee some of the wonderful things which are in
teZond'el^ "the seai^" And the Two-horned said, "Yea, my
of the deep. ..Jqj.^ and messcuger of God Almighty." Then
the angel called unto a monster" [from the sea].
And it came up straightway and stood before him,
and the angel said unto the Two-horned, "Art
"thou watching this wonder .''" And the monster
went quite close to^ the Two-horned, and bit the ark;
and then Alexander sat for two days watching for
its tail and hinder parts [to appear], and after two
days it disappeared and went down from the ark.
The angel said unto the Two-horned, "Hast thou
"ever seen anything like unto this monster?" And
he answered "Nay. The wonders of the glorious
^ According to the Greek, when Alexander had descended
120 cubits, a fish smote the glass vessel^ and his men in
the ship drew him up; soon after he went down a second
time, and again returned to the surface. When he had gone
down a third time, and was about 200 cubits below the sur-
face, he saw many fishes, and one mighty fish seized the glass
vessel in his mouth, and carried him a mile away to the
shore, at the same time dragging the ship and its crew of
one hundred and fifty men behind him; when the fish came
to the shore he cast the glass vessel from his mouth thereon
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^ Literally^ "between his hands".