Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

THE AMAZONS. 335
"the people of the country wear dyed garments,
"but their armour and weapons are of gold, and they Their
toms
"have strong horses which they ride in the time
"of war; and iron and brass are scarce with them,
"and other nations rule over them. And it came
"to pass that when I arrived at the sea I did not
"cross over it, for there were great and savage Beasts
"beasts therein, and they came against us and ^"^^J^^""^
"attacked us, but we overcame them."
"So we marched from there to the sea^ which
"goeth round about [the whole world], and to the
"right were mighty mountains, and on the left was
"the sea which goeth round about them;* and
"after we had passed on from that place the army
"pitched their tents and slept.^ And on the morrow
"we returned to the sea which [p. 195] is called
"Delitun, a place where man cannot see by reason
"of the deep darkness which is there; but before
"we arrived we saw a number of peoples* who
' In the Greek, exei be Kai 9tpia TToWd' auxai ovv bm-
Paffai TTaperdSavTO f]\xiv; see Miiller, p. 140.
^ Chapter xxviii. begins here.
3 In the Greek, evexujpiTCTa|Liev em Trjv 'EpuGpdv BdXacr-
aav eiq tov Tevovxa Ttoraiuov
• 'Hv be eK ^eSlUJV tottoi; Kai opo? uiiiriXov, to be dpecTTepov
f] QdXaaaa erreKXuZiev; see Codex A, Miiller, p. 140, note i.
5 In the Greek and Syriac it is said that Alexander sacri-
ficed to Poseidon, the god of the sea.
^ "Headless men which had their eyes and mouth in their
breasts, and other men with six hands and the faces of bulls,
and cave-dwellers, and men with twisted legs, and hairy men
like goats, and men with lions' faces"; see Miiller, p. 141, col. i.
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