^{1 Ref} Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;

^{2 Ref} that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, `saying', Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide!