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spiritum, qui meo sensui tam fortiter dominatur, quod nullo modo hoc facere me permittit." Et hec dicens dimisit eos illesos.

[''A portion of the story is here omitted in the English poeml it relates to the finding of the pillars of Hercules and a nation of Amazons; to elephants in the woods of India; to a nation of bearded women; and a nation of men and women walkiny about unclothed. Then comes a description of intolerable cold and severe snowstorms, so terrible that five hundred soldiers died; there was also a great fall of rain, after which it seemed as if burning torches fell from heaven. Alexander offers sacrifices, and the storms cease. The story then goes on with the arrival of Alexander at the river Ganges; see l. 137 of our English version. The substance of ll. 111-136 occurs further on in the Latin, being evidently taken from the chapter I here transcribe, which begins on leaf h 6, back.'']

Quomodo alexander inuenit arbores que nascebantur cum sole.
[I]Nde amoto exercitu deuenit ad alium campum in quo arbores consistebant mire magnitudinis, que cum sole oriebantur et cum sole occidebant. A prima siquidem hora diei egrediebantur de sub terra et vsque ad horam sextam cressebant (sic) altissime. A sexta vero hora vsque ad occasum solis intantum descendebat, vt nullatenus super