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Take the bow and shoot the arrows at the horseman on the dome top

and free mankind from this sore calamity. When thou hast shot him

he shall fall into the sea, and the horse will also drop at thy

feet: then bury it in the place of the bow. This done, the main

will swell and rise till it is level with the mountain head, and

there will appear on it a skiff carrying a man of laton (other

than he thou shalt have shot) holding in his hand a pair of

paddles. He will come to thee and do thou embark with him but

beware of saying Bismillah or of otherwise naming Allah Almighty.