500 M E M O 1 K S of the 
out of one of tKeir own books, what they tell us, of a great flood 
that formerly happened; viz. that about 21000 years ago, the 
fea overwhelmed and drowned the whole earth, excepting one 
£;reat hill far to the northwards, called Sindd^ and that there fled 
thither only one woman and fevcn men, whofe names were, 
tDe/jook^, Surwuky Siwnaud^ T'rilkeky Sannotah, Cuppylojha'vCy 
Siirafchah^ and "Burroo-purig ; thefe, underftanding by their books 
that fuch a flood would come, and was then actually at hand, 
prepared againfl: the fame, and repaired thither 5 to which place 
alio went two of all forts of creatures, herbs, trees, grafs, and of 
every thing that had life, in all to the number of 1,800,000 living 
fouls- this flood, they fay, lafted 120 years, 5 months, and 5 
days; after which time all thofe creatures, that were thus pre- 
i>rved, came down again, and repleniflied the earth; but as for 
the feven men, only one of them came down with the woman^ 
and dwelt at the foot of the mountain ; the other fix turned Fucees, 
or holy men, and there they fpent the remainder of their days. 
They hold in general the Ptolemaic fyftem of the univerfe, 
and fay that there are 8 or 9 heavens, reckoning the air and 
earth ; every one exceeding the other in beauty and glory. 
Their religion confifts of nothing, as far as Mr. Marjbal could 
ever fee or learn, but leading of a pure life, the walhing their 
flns away in the river G^^/^^5, their muttering over divers prayers, 
and their doing llrange and incredible penances : They fay, that 
God is fuch a one, that whofoever leeks him, let it be after what 
manner he pleafes, whether by thinking that he is the fun, the 
moon, or the like, if they do it but fincerely and honeftly, with 
a well difpofed heart, they will be accepted of him; they report, 
that, on a certain time, a Mujjidman feeing a Hindoo or pagan 
prieft in heaven, he asked God, how that infidel, whom Maho- 
met fb often calls by the name q{ bitter RootSt came to have admit- 
tance thither ; to whom God anfwered, that if a bitter root bring 
forth fweeter fruit than any of you, why fliould not I receive it? 
upon which the Mujfulman had no more to fay ; they hold, that 
fuch, as do not lufler their minds to wander after the luits of the 
world, dx^'^tx^^di Jogeh or laints, and that God is always prefent 
with them in all their actions : It is to be found in feveral of their 
books, that there was a time, a good while ago, in which God 
took upon him the fliape of a man, and Ipent many years in 
refornnino the world, and giving better rules to walk by, than 
there had been before ; but he having at length left them, they 
foon forgot him, and his rules, and returned ^^ their former courfesj 
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