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Then Sinaganbuhan said to Jambangan: "Please do not hold me so that you can fight with them.

Then Jambangan let go of Sinaganbuhan and the two datus stabbed him with their bolos from head to foot.  The kris of Nurulla was broken into several pieces.

Nurulla said to Jambangan: "If I ask something from you, will you give it to me?"

Jambangan said: "What are you asking of me?"

N said: "The only thing I ask from you is that you remove your life from your body."

Jambangan said: "If I give you my life, I will be dead.  If you are so eager to remove my life, I will remove it myself."

Jambangan sat down and shouted up into the air.  He called Nurulla to come near him and his life was no more.

Jambangan, a pitiful man, lay down among the grasses.  His body will not rot for 14 years.

A bird flew over Jambangan and went to Sinaganbuhan and told her: "Why do you not go to Jambangan?  He is lying in the grasses.  He died because of you."

Sinaganbuhan retrieved the body of Jambangan.  She took it to her house and called some of her relatives: "What do you think of Jambangan?  He died because of you."

Then she went to the forest to cut trees for the coffin of Jambangan.  When Jambangan was lying on the mattress Sinaganbuhan cried.  Then Jambangan was wrapped in white silk cloth.  When they finished, Sinaganbuhan took the body of Jambangan to the cemetery.  He was buried and Sinaganbuhan placed a marker on his

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