Still unsatisfied and unstoppable, he continued to talk about the lotus flower and recounted his life struggles hanging by a thread: "When we escaped a short distance, not far from the courtyard and the cave, I first got out of the belly of the sheep myself, and then loosened the shackles, and let my companions come down, and without my help, they had to carry them on the belly of the sheep forever, thirsty and hungry, and only goat's milk could satisfy their hunger, oh, by the way, those were rams, and there was no milk to eat.

"We are still in shock, and we look back frequently, and besiege that Cook giant to chase us, even if he is blind, we are still no opponents, and he has caused us too much fright!

"We quickly drove up the long-legged flock, each with its fat in large chunks, and brought them to the side of our boat, which were counted as our trophies, though we had been compensated for the death of six of our companions.

"When they saw that we had escaped death and returned safely, the dear companions who were anxiously waiting for us were overjoyed! But when they saw that we had gone twelve and only six returned, they immediately turned their joy and sorrow and mourned for their dead companions.

"But I won't let them speak, lest the other giant notice where we are, and come after us, and bring us great calamity!

"I ordered them to hurry up, load the fat sheep with curly hair, load them into the sea ships, and sail out into the salty ocean, and they must not stay here for a moment, and if they stay for a while, it may be the end of death.

"The people quickly boarded the boat, and after taking their seats in the oars, they swung the oars with all their strength with all their might, and at the beginning they struck the gray-blue sea with all our might, and caused our ship to leave the shore like a bird.

"When we were far away from the shore to safety, but our shouts reached the surrounding sea on the shore, I finally let go of the pressure and began to shout insults.

"I cried out to the Cook Giant: 'Thou wilt eat thy guest's companion alive, Cook, who, by thy brute and brutishness, did whatever he pleased, in the deep cavern, and now it seems that thy guest is not a coward!

"My companions also vented their frustrations, especially the six who had gone with me and had escaped for their lives, all of whom shouted loudly, as if they had torn their throats, and echoed my shouting: 'You deserve to blind your dog's eyes!'

Hearing my shouts, especially the harmony of the crowd, the Cook giant's heart burst with fierce rage, and he pulled down a stone peak on the mountain, waved it and threw it, and landed in front of the aconitum sea-ship, almost grazing the edge of the rudder, only a little.

"The great rockfall, the splashing waves, the torrent that swept the ship away, drove us from the surface of the sea to the shore, almost to the shore, and was less than three feet away from the giant of Cook!

At that critical moment, I grabbed a long pole, stabbed it down with all my might, and pushed the boat ashore! At the same time, I encouraged my companions with eager words, and used my brains to utter incendiary sentences, asking them to fight with all their strength to cut off the threat of death, or else they would die without a place to be buried, and become food for the mouth of the Cook giant, just like the six companions who had been lost.

"When they heard this, and knew what they were doing, they all leaned down and rowed forward!, however, when we had run twice as far as the previous one, I was going to shout and mock Cook.

"In spite of the dissuasion of my companions, one by one, they said to me in gentle words: 'O rough man, why are you trying to arouse the wrath of the savage again? The rock he had just thrown down into the sea, and hastiled our wooden boat back to shore, and reminded us of the great calamity of certain death, and then, if he had heard a shout, even if it had been a word, he would have smashed our heads, smashed the planks of our ship, and accomplished what he had set out with a more great and ferocious stone, and his throwing would have been so strong!'

"Their advice, though reasonable, could not have touched my rough heart, and my heart was filled with hatred for the Giant Cook! I cried out in a loud voice, 'Cook, if any mortal asks you who this man is, and blinds you, and embarrasses you as a mighty and stupid fellow, you can tell him plainly that it was I who stabbed you in the eye, not 'nobody,' and that I told you the name I lied to you, you fool! And I will not change my name, I will not change my surname, I am a hero of the castle, I live in the Near East, and I am the son of my father's great name Lamech!'

"At my words, the Cook man lamented and said, 'Oh my God! The prophecy of the past has been fulfilled today! There was a soothsayer, a good man, tall and strong, who lived a long life among the Cooks, who told me that all that was happening today would be fulfilled one day, and that I would lose my eyes and be able to move by my own hand.

"'But I was always on guard against some handsome man, who came here with great courage, and was met with a little bit, a feeble dwarf, who first drunk me with wine, and then stabbed me in the eye.

"'Come, don yourself, let me give you a precious gift, and go and ask the glorious angel of the Broken Earth for me, that he may bring you to your homeland, for I claim to be his son, and he claims to be my father, and he will come at once when he knows that I am hurt, and he can heal my eyes with his own hands, if he wills, and any other angel who can bring happiness to others, or some mortal, may do something else to heal my wounded eyes, but no one can. ’

"When the Cook man had spoken, I opened my mouth and said, 'I wish I could take your soul, and send you to the dwelling of hell, and you may be sent to the dwelling of hell, and my heart is so indomitable that I know that even the Angel of the Broken Earth, no matter how powerful he may be, will not cure you of your blindness!'

When I had finished speaking, the Cook man did not argue with me, but changed his mind and his ways, and prayed to the mighty king of the sea, the angel of the earth.

Giant Cook raised his hand over his head, pointed at the starry sky, and hissed, "Hear me, the angel of the earth that surrounds the earth, the angel of the black hair, the mighty one who drives the seas: if I am indeed your son, and you have the courage to confess in public that you are my father, then I ask you as a son that I will never let myself go, that wicked little man, who calls himself a castle slayer, and a son of Lamech who lives in the Near East, return to my homeland!"

"'But if he is destined to have relatives and friends, to return to build a strong house, and to rule over his kingdom, he must also be delayed, and he will be miserable, and he will lose all his companions, and ride on someone else's ship, and when he returns home he will suffer misery, and though he will survive, he will suffer all the torments and all the sufferings!'

He prayed like this, and the black-haired Angel of the Split Earth heard his voice, and on the basis of his previous dissatisfaction with Noji, he went to a deeper level, and made up his mind to make Noji's life worse than death!

"At that time, the Cook Giant lifted the boulder again, much larger than the first, and turned his body, and threw his hand with an incalculable force, and the boulder rose into the sky, and smashed directly into my ship as accurately as the eye could see.

"In the blink of an eye, the boulder fell behind our aconitum boat, not in the direction we were trying to escape, almost grazing the edge of the rudder oar, just a little, and when it fell, the impact of the boulder set off a splash of water, and the rapids rushed against the wooden boat, and forced us towards the beach, where we had first stayed.

So we returned to the island where we had begun to arrive, and the rest of the well-decked ships were awaited on the beach, and they were gathered together, and those who had not gone with us sat around the ship, anxiously waiting for our return, in a sad mood, and anxiously waiting for our return.

"When our ships reached the shore, they docked them on the sand, and the stern of the boat, still on the shore of the waves, was facing the sea, and was ready to stay there until we set sail again.

"The companions drove out Cook's fat sheep and let them out of the deep sea, and they had only six companions in exchange for their lives! We then distributed the spoils, and did everything in my power to give everyone their fair share.

"When the sheep was divided, the sturdy companions set aside the ram for me, and I sacrificed it to the mighty one who was on high and the mighty, the one who gathered the clouds, Satan, without whom there would be no life, so I would have sacrificed it to the most powerful Satan, because I would have been thankful for it, otherwise it would have been eaten by us like other rams.

"On that sandy beach, I burned my legs, and paid full respect to the boss, and I was very earnest, but the mighty man on high seemed unmoved, and continued to plot how to destroy all our well-decked ships, and my trusted companions, which, though I did not know at the time, was later experienced, and especially painful reflections, which allowed me to get a glimpse of his mind.

But at that time we knew nothing but what I could, and in this way we sat and ate and drank what was left of the sacrifice, until the sun went down, and we had a whole day, chewing on the inexhaustible mutton and drinking the sweet wine.

"When the sun goes down, and the angels of the sunset take away the last rays of the day, and the holy angels of the night cover the earth, we lie down and rest all night on the shores of the long waves, not knowing if this is our last night's rest.

"The next morning, when the young dawn, with its rosy fingers, reappeared in the sky, I urged my fellows to get aboard, untie the ropes at the stern, and begin our new voyage, and immediately this sad place.

"The people quickly boarded the boat, sat down in the oars, swung the oars in a neat position, struck the gray-blue sea, and left the island, and from there we continued on, glad in our hearts that we had escaped death, but we were missing six military companions, and although we were sad in our hearts, and remembered our dead comrades, our close companions, we were helpless, and we did not know when we would go to Hades to meet them.

"Soon after, we came to a strange island, inhabited by a man called Oros, and loved by the Almighty on high, a floating island, surrounded by an impenetrable wall of bronze and supported by a precipitous cliff.

"It is said that Olos had twelve children, who lived in the palace, six beautiful daughters, and six sons in the prime of life, and he bereaved them in marriage to his sons as their wives and daughters.

Day after day, they feasted beside their beloved father and their noble mother, and the delicious food was too great to count, piled up in front of them, and they were rich and rich.

"During the day, the palace is filled with the smell of cooking, and the sound of beautiful music wafts back to the courtyard space, and at night, they lie beside their gentle wives, covered with woven carpets, and wear beds tied with ropes, and their quiet life is their main theme.

"We came to this island city, and entered into the beautiful houses, where the king Oros hospied us with great hospitality, and for a whole month asked many questions about the eastern city of Sinai, the ships that fought in battle, and the return of our people.

I answered his questions in detail and described the whole course of the war, and then, when I asked if I could continue the return voyage and asked him to facilitate it, he said yes and offered to help.

"Oros gave me a bag made of cowhides, taken from a nine-year-old bull, whose body was already very large and strong, and the cowhide bag was filled with howling winds and ran in all directions.

"It was the Almighty One who had put Oros in charge of the winds, and it was up to him to decide whether it would blow or stop, and Oros put his leather bag on the deep ship of the sea, and tied it with a silver rope so that it would not escape, even a little.

"But he spared the Angel of the North Wind and made him help me to return and push the ship and its people, but unfortunately it was not destined to end in this way, and our folly brought us to ruin.

"For nine days in a row, we sailed forward, day and night, and on the tenth day, we finally saw the wheel shape of our hometown, which was very close to the city, and we could see the scene of people adding firewood.

"At this moment my long-strained mind relaxed, and a sweet sleep crept up on my brow: I was exhausted, and I was always in charge of the ropes of the sails, and I was reluctant to entrust the matter to my companions, so that we might return to our homeland as soon as possible.

"But my companions took advantage of this opportunity to start a discussion, saying that I had hidden gold and silver to be transported to my own home, and that I had received a gift from the reckless Oros, and that it was this thought that would bury them all, and drag me down from place to place. ”

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