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Show An Account of the Fall. Among the Masai, a native tribe In Ger-man Ger-man East Africa, is found the following story of the creation, which, according to Dr. Emll Reich, they could not have got from missionaries. Dr. Reich thinks that tho Christian, Masai and Babylonian accounts ac-counts had a common origin In Arabia. "In tho beginning tho earth was a waste and barren wilderness, in which there dwelt a dragon alone. Then God enmo down from heaven, fought with tho dragon drag-on and vanquished It. From tho dragonfs blood, which was water, tho barren rock wilderness was made fertile, and the spot where the atrugglo between God and the dragon took placo became paradise. Thereafter God created all things sun, moon, stars, plants and beasts, and llnnllv two human beings. Tho man was sent down from heaven and was called 'maJ-lumbo 'maJ-lumbo and tho woman. N.iilergorob, sprang from the bosom of the earth. "God led them Into paradise, where they lived an untroubled existence. Of all the fruits therein they might eat bv God's permission; of one tree alone they might not taste. Often God enrne down to seo thorn, when he climbed down a ladder from heaven. But oik; day he was unable for a long time to Ilnd them, but finally discovered them crouching among the bushes. On being asked the meaning of ' his conduct Mnltumbo replied that thov were ashamed becau.so they had eaten of the forbidden fruit. "Naltergorob gave nic , of tho fruit,' ho said, 'and persuaded mo to eat of it, after sho had eaten of It herself.' |