Not So Simple
Different settlements of the Bajau Laut tribe have different retellings of this particular part of their story, but the most prevalent retelling is that the king ordered his entire tribe to go out into the sea to find his daughter. When they were unable to locate her, the whole tribe opted to stay in the sea to avoid their king’s wrath when they returned to shore. However, other subsects of the Bajau Laut tribe did not see the story end in that way, in fact, there was much more that occurred afterward...