_Wherein I give the contents of one of the
documents I found in the box, consisting of
several Narrations, in which Ka In extricates
himself from a dilemma and produces our pleasant
and agreeable seasons; the origin of the Ice Age;
the real but little known cause of the Great
Flood; the lovers with the terrible eyes and the
artful maidens; the origin of shaving the face and
cutting the hair; the Tower of Babel. Also tracing
my genealogy from Ka In to Li Ur, who wrote this
document._
THOUGH I have studied all the known languages under all the instructors
of prominence, and have acquired their proper pronunciation by speaking
each language in all its dialects with the people who used them
naturally, I have been compelled to translate the following documents by
the application of my wide and varied knowledge thus gained of the
idioms of the numerous classes with whom I have come in contact.
I have taken the liberty, in a few instances, to “fill in” in order to
embellish the meager language in which the original is written,
believing I shall be pardoned for thus doing when it is understood how
much of interest has thereby been added to the narrative. Yet I have
endeavored to retain the originality of expression and turn of sentence.