Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

2 88 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
number of men, from one to one thousand, could
take shelter under the cloud, but if only one man
beyond the thousand were added, the cloud used
to withdraw itself and disappear.
The fourth The FOURTH WONDER. In the city a canal had
been built close by a temple, and there was there
a large open tank, and each year, in the days of
harvest, seventy [of the people] of that city used
to bring to the canal as much wine as ever they
could carry, and pour it into the water. And it
came to pass that some of them poured in bad
wine, and some of them poured in vinegar, and
some of them who were evilly disposed poured
in urine; now they were wont to do this in the
night during the season of harvest. And their
priest used to come to the temple when the
[p. l65] days of harvest were ended, and pray
over the canal, and if any man had a desire to
drink wine he used to go to the canal, and he
and those who were with him drank as much as
they were able. If he had poured therein good
wine, he found good [wine] there; and if he had
poured in bad wine, he found bad [wine] there;
and if he had poured in urine he found urine; each
man found there according to what he had poured
in. And it came to pass when their king found
wine which did not come from that lake, but from
another, that he destroyed it, and inflicted punish-
ment upon those who were found there.
The fifth The fifth wonder. There was in the gate of
wonder. , . ... _
the city a door with seventy columns, and it came