Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

BY AL-MAKIN. 373
with him took both of pearls and of jacinths as
many as he could carry. And some say that he
carried with him ships which could be taken to
pieces and laid upon the backs of camels, and
that, when he wished to go to the islands of the
sea, he built together the pieces of the ships and
he and his soldiers embarked in them. And when Alexander's
he had finished what he wished [to do] and hadghips.
come up from the sea, he took the ships to pieces
again and laid them upon camels.'
The writer of this chronicle saith: — And it
came to pass that Alexander reigned over all Alexander's
kingdoms, from the East even unto the West, and^^^^o„,
all kings^ humbled themselves before him and came
into subjection to him: and his army numbered
six hundred thousand horsemen. He founded two
hundred great cities, some of which are [situated]
in the east, and some in the west, and he founded
a city by the sea of the land of Egypt, and called
it Alexandria after his own name. He dug through
rivers, and made rafts, and passed over(?) seas, Alexandria
and blotted out thirty-five^ kings, and obtained'" ^^^''
dominion over their kinsfdoms. And he turned
aside to Babylon [p. 219] to impose tribute and
service upon it, and to arrange its affairs, and
the people thereof gave him poison to drink. Now
skins.
^ These ships were probably wicker baskets covered with
' Read Vl/*'ih •
3 Pseudo-Callisthenes (iii. 35)
Greek peoples."
says "22 foreign, and 14
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