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who, when grown up, destroyed each other through an 
artifice of the devil. They add, that Adam had 
many children, who increased greatly, became wicked, 
and refused to acknowledge God; that thereupon he 
sent a deluge on the earth, after he had commanded 
Noah to build a ship, and retire to it with his wife 
and children, relations and domestics, with male and 
female of every species; that they had no sooner 
entered, than the earth, with the remaining animals, 
was buried under the waters of the deluge, excepting 
the four following mountains :*—Zabalicaf in the north, 
Zabalicatoure in the south, Zabaliraf in the west, and 
Zabalibazane in the east: no persons, however, could 
save themselves from death on these mountains. 
After the deluge, Noah went out of the ship to live 
at Jerusalem, and from thence to Mecca, where he 
received from God, writings, containing his law. 
They have likewise some tradition concerning Jesus 
Christ; but these traditional accounts of the histories 
recorded in Scripture, are confined principally to the 
Zafe Casimambous and the Ontampassimaca of the 
province of Matatane and Anossi: it is therefore evi¬ 
dent they were introduced by the Mahometans. 
We have seen some accounts which state, that the 
inhabitants of St. Mary Isle, and the rest of the 
Zafe Hibrahim, refrain from work on the Sabbath; 
believing that otherwise they would be wounded or 
attacked by sickness: that they also acknowledged 
Noah, Abraham, Moses, and David ; but have no 
knowledge of Jesus Christ, or any of the prophets, 
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