Gilgamesh: A New English Novel . Which feature of epic poetry does this excerpt most clearly show- at four hundred miles they stopped to eat, at a thousand miles they pitched their camp. They had traveled for just three days and nights, a six weeks' journey for ordinary men. When the sun was setting. they dug a well, they filled their waterskin with fresh water, Gilgamesh climbed to the mountaintop, he poured out flour as an offering and said, Mountain, being me a favorable dream