Badang

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King was a man of extraordinary strength, named Badang.

Malayan Literature Various

In accordance with this resolution, Badang said to the _hantou_, "Give me the gift of physical strength; let me be strong enough to tear down and to uproot the trees; that is, that I may tear down, with one hand, great trees, a fathom or two in girth."

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Singapore an officer of the King named Badang without a rival in extraordinary strength.

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Then the King ordered Badang to undertake the operation.

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The athlete of Kling, thus vanquished, handed to Badang the seven vessels and their cargoes; then he returned, very much saddened and mortified by his defeat.

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Badang flung the fish-scales (_sisik_) into the river; from which circumstance was derived the river's name, Besisik.

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Badang undertook the task unaided, and pushed with such force that the vessel went right across the strait to the other shore.

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It happened one day that Badang spread his nets in the river; but on the following morning he found his net quite empty, and by its side some fish-scales and fish-bones.

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"Very good," answered Badang, and lifting the stone he swung it in the air, then hurled it toward the river, at the entrance to the town, where it is still seen at the extremity of the point of Singapore.

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