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Rh led Nelleraglek, which is a Name of a Man amongt them; this they ay has got on a Coat of Skin. Gemini, Auriga and Cupella are named Killaub Kuttuk, that is, the Breat Bone of Heaven.

When two Stars eem to meet together, they ay, that they are a viiting one another; others will have it to be two Women, who being Rivals, take one another by the Hair.

Concerning Thunder and Lightning, they ay, that two old Women live together in one Houe in the Air, who now and then fall out and quarrel about a thick and tiff outtretched Seal Skin (becaue uch a Skin, if beaten as a Drum, has ome Likenes to the Noie of Thunder;) whilt they are thus by the Ears together, down comes the Houe with great bouncing and cracking, and the Lamps are broken, the Fires and broken Pieces fly about in the Air, and this, in their Philoophy, is Thunder and Lightning. In