NOTICE OF YAJÛJ AND MAJÛJ.*

It is related that Manshaj, one of the children of Yâfuth, had two sons named Yajûj and Majûj; and since every one of his sons had obtained a country, these two latter ones proceeded to the far East, to the vicinity of the region where the wall of Zulqarneen stands at present. There they established themselves and begat a numerous progeny, since, according to the opinion of A’bdullah Bin O’mar, u. w. b., etc., mankind are divided into ten parts, nine of which are the descendants of Yajûj and Majûj. It is like­wise recorded in histories that Yajûj and Majûj were two nations, each of which was divided into one hundred tribes, and that one man of these never died until he beheld one thousand children of his descendants. Their whole number was divided into three species: of the first kind were those whose stature was one hundred and twenty cubits high, but the breadth of their bodies was less; of the second kind were those whose bodies measured one hundred and twenty cubits in height and as many in breadth; of the third kind were those whose dwarfish bodies varied in height from one span to four cubits; these last were called long-ears. The elephant and rhinoceros were unable to cope with them, neither could any rapacious animals escape from them when they met them. One of their abominable customs is, that when a man dies among them they devour his body. Their food, however, mostly consists of crabs, which abound in that country. They have neither a law nor a religion, know neither God nor man, and live like animals.