TRANSLATIONS, &c. 27S 



THE DELUGE. 



There were a great many wicked people, but Noah was a good man, 

 and a prophet among them, and had a wife named Djooliaka, and one 

 very wicked son, who was very powerful. Djooliaka was also very bad, 

 and a scoffer of God, and Noah felt compelled to pray for a deluge and 

 a new world. He began to pray on a Friday, and the angel Gabriel came 

 on the following Friday, and said, that God would grant the deluge. 

 Noah then built a large ship, and wrote God's and his own name upon 

 every plank, and Sitani (a minor devil) licked out the names. Noah in 

 his distress prayed to God, who sent him a dog, (then created for the first 

 time) who kept off Sitani by trying to bite him. Noah was three 

 months making the ship, and three days collecting every thing, male and 

 female, that had life. The deluge lasted 300 years, and it was very cold. 

 When Noah thought it time to descend from the ark, he called the little 

 pigeon " as big as his little finger," named Rammatto, and which could 

 fly seven weeks without stopping, and asked him if the rain had ceased, 

 and Rammatto said, " you must call and ask the sun," and Noah then 

 told him to get up, and go into the sky, and if he came back to alight at 

 Mecca. Rammatto, flying to the east, near Mecca, there discovered the 

 first dry land, and took Noah back some of the grass; Noah seeing that, 

 went out, and built a large city. And the beasts came out, stood, and 

 walked about, and lived in the ark no more; but when Noah's son Habil 

 killed his brother, they all ran away, and said, " We are no longer safe, 

 for man would kill us more readily than his brother ; therefore, let us 

 avoid him." Hence the fear and avoiding of man by animals, and their 

 living in the bush. 



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