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things; and the: Gaabeast on this land 
in the days of Golam—are: with their 
brethren. «video! Mizar 98 
And they do tell of: Cloden they kre 
Firgneat, Cegail, born’ ofthe elements 
ofthis land. 1 
And: the Danan did hitlier eome froin 
beneath! the fingers oof Baal, ten ‘score 
and dlcven’knots now passed); and they 
did! overbeat Firgneat;and hold them in 
bondage! with rigours: 
Neither did ever hear of Baal. 
Wow what: time we had svjourned 
three moons‘on: Magmortioumna, Marcad 
eatied to hime all the’ children of Iber; 
and the chiefs did hold talk inthe pre- 
sence of the Gaak; and lie did rise in 
the midst, and said, 
“Phe land: is now free for the foot of 
the’ children of Iber.’ What, if it were 
explored, none knoweth the limits there- 
of? After ‘what manner shall ‘we go 
fortlr? | Phe Danan ‘may prove false, 
Shall we: separate; or shall we move 'to- 
gether?! “Phin is our host by the power 
of Baal. 
49Sra “was: ibut> his’ messenger, as 
@rought and ‘pestilence ; Golam the re- 
nowned, though mighty, could not stand 
against the mightier Baal; thercfore is 
our host thin. 
**Colba is! bencath the waters of the 
déep unburied: 
“ Cier cai no'more hear the sound of 
Maread!s voice. “Ob, that he could! 
+Cier lieth under his ‘heap ; his death- 
song’ channted; “his' war-song raised. 
Who, Dat Baal, could overthrow Cicer 
the magnanimous? What availeth man 
against “thie Almighty.” > And Maread 
wept; and) atl the host lified ap their 
voice, and cried. After awhile, Maread 
said) *'4f Blat would speak.” 
‘And Blatvsaid; “What, if all move 
together?” 
‘And Marcad said; W hat saieth Tolar?” 
‘VWid-Totar said, “ What, if three parts 
be made of the Gaal, and that one part 
move nigh unto their brethren; keeping 
a course all to the same point?” 
The words of Tolar being goody pre: 
parations were made; and what!time 
Baal entered: the: threshold of ‘bis: house 
'Tirim, the congregation were in motion, 
And Marcad went out béfore =the 
host, with one third towards the ‘south; 
and Blat moved on therightiof\Marcad; 
and Tolar took his course on si right of 
Blat. ‘o 
And’ the Olam and’ the priests, the 
bards, and the minstrels, were! divided 
amongst the chiefs ; and the women and 
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children «were with: their /@kum;) and 
Firgneat were: with:us;i conducting» the 
Gaal through: the passages of thedand. 
LoAadsEr the) son lof: Ciernwas invthe 
handiof Maread ;'yca; before the: sens of 
Marcad; as he went, \\the sstepyobithe 
wiirribr shortened. teleh to! the paceing 
of thelad: iitel It mo 92100 
Andrwe jpn /Marcadvhaving 
the waters of the great sea énhiselelt 
close’ by, untilpwe ‘met watervofriters 
unfordab!e; then. artifieers ofvihe: Gaul 
coustructed boats, for Maread edusedall 
the vessels to be ‘burnedkion! which ithe 
host were conveyed fiony Gaclag to this 
land. 10 06 a9oaal tse ter 
And thus did we proceed ,dilk wessaw 
from the summit/ofianountains, thelex> 
tremity of the World oflandbiswos 200m) 
Then we ebanged our course: déseénd- 
ing into the planes: beneath,’ tillo we 
reached © the streams) of othe! owaters) 
wherein perished Cier the magnayimons; 
and Maread would go; to look apon the 
heap, beneath which lieth the ‘brother! of 
his soul, that was, O grief!vand igo‘he 
did, taking with *him a ifews in his 
company. lifgim otld Jo 
And as we entered into that landy. did 
we not sce of Gaal ‘of /Iber) abiding 
thereon? we did bear them spear the 
tongue of the Gaal in'great partssand 
they did tell of strange things*confusedlys 
but they know not of Gaclag, nor /Ditn- 
mianac, nor much of aught: theseodid 
minister unto us, to the fulness OP their 
little means. it zonslg 
And we did stand upon “the extremity 
of the world of land; savethe small: (pore 
tion separated therefrom) whereon! is 
raised the heap of Cier, in’ the’ midst of 
the waters of the roaring sea, on Which 
the raging winds ‘did not suffer Marca 
now to pass. a 
Therefore “did ‘we raise our’ eyes to: 
ward, our hands" ‘outstretched; tears 
flowing frony the eyes of the° boy’ Br; 
yea} and of all; and’ Maread said, with 
faltering voice, OW ema Yt 
“ May the spirit of Cier, the ‘son of 
the her6, bé immortal! ‘and headded, 
moreover, * Tet this? Fiver “be €alled ‘the 
Fiverof Ther, for the times to come, in 
memory ‘of this son of es ihe glory ‘of 
the race.” oeo8 
And we retuned {o our brethren! sant 
they wold “go"also to see the heap =| 
Cier; ‘but Marcad stayed themio%! > 
“And ‘the host ‘moved: forward! till: als 
reached the waters of Seanamhan, be- 
yond which are the lands of the! Danan ; 4 
and we Kopt the river ou the loft of us; 
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