Now, when those who were so commanded returned to Babylon, they dug up the writings which had been buried at Sippara; they also founded many cities and built temples, and thus the country of Babylon became inhabited again. The Hindoo narrative has been colored by the character of that people, but yet it is preserved with great accuracy, and possesses many points of likeness to the Biblical story. THE HINDOO TRADITION. The traditions of India appear in many forms. The one which most remarkably agrees with the Biblical account is that contained in the Mahábhárata. We are there told that Brahma, having taken the form of a fish, appeared to the pious Manu (Satya, _i. e._, the righteous, as Noah also is called), on the banks of the river Wirini. Thence, at his request, Manu transferred him to the Ganges when he had grown bigger, and finally, when he was too large for even the Ganges, to the ocean. Brahma now announces to Manu the approach of the Deluge, and bids him build a ship, and put in it all kinds of seeds, together with the seven Rishic, or holy beings. The flood begins and covers the whole earth. Brahma himself appears in the form of a horned fish and the vessel being made fast to him, he draws it for many years, and finally lands on the highest summit of Mount Himarat (_i. e._, the Himalaya). Afterwards, by the command of God, the ship is made fast, and in memory of the event, the mountain is called Naubandhana (_i. e._, ship binding). By the favor of Brahma, Manu, after the Flood, creates the new race of mankind, which is thenceforth termed Manudsha, or born of Manu. The Chinese story is sometimes called in question as possibly not referring to the general deluge, but to some local flood. The truth is, we know as yet comparatively little about the story, which is as follows: THE CHINESE TRADITION. Fuh-he is the reputed founder of the Chinese civilization and the author of the Yhi-king, the oldest of the sacred books. According to the legend, he is represented as escaping from the waters of a deluge, and re-appearing as the first man at the production of a renovated world. He is attended by seven companions, his wife, three sons and three daughters. Dr. Gutzlaff, long a resident in China, says that he saw in one of the Buddhist temples a representation of the deluge in plaster work. Let it be kept in mind, that Buddhism incorporated in every land to which it went all the traditions, myths and legends which it found current among the people. “In beautiful stucco,” Dr. Gutzlaff says, “was depicted the scene where Kwan-Yin, the Goddess of Mercy, looks down from heaven upon the lonely Fuh-he (or Noah) in his ark, amidst the raging waves of a deluge, with the dove with an olive branch in its beak, flying toward the vessel.”