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The eldest merchant embraced her, and perceived that she was a goblin. “All the five hundred of them must be goblins!” he thought to himself: “we must make our escape!” So in the early morning, when he went to wash his face, he bespake the other merchants in these words. “These are goblins, and not human beings! As soon as other shipwrecked men can be found, they will make them their husbands, and will eat us; come--let us escape!” Two hundred and fifty of them replied, “We cannot leave them: go ye, if ye will, but we will not flee away.” Then the chief trader with two hundred and fifty, who were ready to obey him, fled away in fear of the goblins. Now at that time, the Bodhisatta had come into the world as a flying horse, white all over, and beaked like a crow, with hair like muñja grass, possessed of supernatural power, able to fly through the air. From Himalaya he flew through the air until he came to Ceylon. There he passed over the ponds and tanks of Ceylon, and ate the paddy that grew wild there. As he passed on thus, he thrice uttered human speech filled with mercy, saying-- “Who wants to go home? who wants to go home?”