And it is said that Bugan, the daughter of Tadona of Kiangan, was sick of life; for she said, “I will beg some one to eat me up in order that I may forget my debtors who will not pay the debt they owe me.” She set out across the rice fields at Kiangan. Binantawan saw her and said: “Go, Tumayaban; get fire from Bugan.” Tumayaban got up and went to where Bugan was.
“Let me have fire, Bugan.”
“Are you in a hurry?” said Bugan.
“Why?” said Tumayaban.
“For I am tired of life, and am hunting for somebody to eat me up,” said Bugan.
“Why?” said Tumayaban.
“Yes, “for I am tired of beseeching my debtors to pay their debts.”
“Why, indeed, will they not listen to reason?” said Tumayaban. “Go back to your house and call upon us halupe.”
Bugan returned, and sacrificed chickens, and called upon the halupe. “Let us go, for the daughter of Tadona has called upon us at Kiangan,” said Banaban. [The old Kiangan about four miles below the village now called Kiangan by American officials.] “They have gathered together in Kiangan. Let us assist our kinsfolk there.” The halupe went and they harassed those of whom it was asked [the debtors], those who had borrowed pigs of the kin in Kiangan. And Bugan followed after and took their pigs and their “irons” and their money and their chickens and their rice and their rice fields and their death blankets.
[The priest blows and waves his hand in the direction of his debtor’s house.]