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not take mee in a lye. He beganne againe to aske 

 mee, how the Sunne had sent me, seeing hee went 

 aloft in the skie and never stoode still, and seeing 

 these many yeeres neither he nor their olde men had 

 ever seene such as we were, of whome they ever had 

 any kind of knowledge, and that the Sunne till that 

 houre had never sent any other. I answered him that 

 it was true that the Sunne made his course aloft in 

 the skie, and did never stand still, yet neverthelesse 

 that they might well perceive that at his going downe 

 and rising in the morning hee came neere unto the 

 earth, where his dwelling was, and that they ever sawe 

 him come out of one place, and that hee had made 

 mee in that land and countrey from whence hee came, 

 like as hee had made many others which hee sent into 

 other partes, and that nowe hee had sent me to visite 

 and view the same river, and the people that dwelt neere 

 the same, that I should speake unto them, and shoulde 

 joyne with them in friendshippe, and should give them 

 things which they had not, and that I should charge them 

 that they should not make warre one against another. 

 Whereunto he answered, that I should tell him the 

 cause why the Sunne had not sent mee no sooner to 

 pacifie the warres which had continued a long time among 

 them, wherein many had beene slaine. I tolde him the 

 cause hereof was, because at that time I was but a child. 

 Then he asked the interpreter whether wee tooke him 

 with us perforce having taken him in the war, or whether 

 he came with us of his own accord. He answered him 

 that he was with us of his owne accord, and was very 

 wel appaid of our company. He returned to enquire, 

 why we brought none save him onely that understood 

 us, and wherefore wee understood not all other men, 

 seeing we were the children of the Sunne : he answered, 

 that the Sunne also had begotten him, and given him a 

 language to understand him, and me, and others : that 

 the Sunne knew well that they dwelt there, but that 

 because he had many other businesses, and because 



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