Jason and Alexander
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Jason (a traveling merchant) has experienced Alexander the great arriving at the shore near the coast while passing Hellespont. He admires Alexander the Great a lot and all this occurs at the beginning of Alexander's great conquest to end the Persian Empire.
Late March 334 B.C.
I was traveling past the Hellespont (Dardanelles) and suddenly I saw a ship. When I first saw that ship, it looked like a big dot floating on the ocean from a distance. But as it grew closer to the shore, it looked more and more like a ship. As the ship was approaching the shore a sharp arrow came from it heading towards me. It was so sharp and pointy and I didn't know what to do so I ran away and hid behind a tree. When I ran and turned around, I saw that sharp arrow strike the ground and just missing me...