Hunting

Samuel Agong discusses some Lun Bawang practices when hunting for wild boar and other animals in the jungle using the Ba Kelalan dialect of Lun Bawang. The recording was made in Buduk Nur on 24th February 2019.

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00:00:00bang kereb nih uih pian mada' ratnan cerita'
now I want to tell you the story

00:00:02kudeng peh me' nekap puung, me' pulung
of how to hunt for animals and go into the jungle

00:00:06me' nganup maya' duwai tepun maun
of hunting with my grandfathers

00:00:09kereb uih anak suut maun
when I was young

00:00:11kereb maya' kedeh
when I went with them

00:00:12dih uih nier kedeh
I watched them

00:00:13kudeng peh deh nganup
to see how they hunted

00:00:14kudeng peh oko' mangang
and how the dogs barked

00:00:16kudeng peh cara ngatey baka
and how they killed wild boar

00:00:18kereb uih suut maun
when I was young

00:00:20kereb kai nganup
when we hunt

00:00:21dih kai ngalap baka
if we catch a wild boar

00:00:22dih kai mabeh dih
then we carry it

00:00:22dih kai ngepub neh bang lepo
and we smoke it in the hut

00:00:25dih kai muli' nguit neh
then we go home with it

00:00:26mio-mio feh
a while later

00:00:28dih uih aneh
then I tried something

00:00:30dih uih nutun belajar sebuleng lah
then I tried to learn by myself

00:00:32belajar kudeng peh uih ngelatih oko' mangang kan
to learn how to train the dogs to bark

00:00:35dih uih meman oko'
I fed the dogs

00:00:36dih uih ngajar uko' neh
then I trained the dogs

00:00:37dih uih nated kedeh
then I took them out

00:00:39mangang, lekian
bark and then stop

00:00:40mangang beruh lekian
bark again and then stop

00:00:42merur nutun oko'
it's tiring to train the dogs

00:00:44nutun oko' luk beruh mangang kan
training puppies that have just started to bark

00:00:47pengeh neh feh, dih uih nganup beruh
after that, I went hunting again

00:00:51dih uih mayung baka neh kan
and I speared the wild boar

00:00:53mayung kedeh setangal
I speared him half dead

00:00:55a ieh mate tecu
but he didn't die straight away

00:00:56naru' oko' netep ieh neh
so I let the dog bite him

00:00:58uen kuh mayung ieh setangal matey
I speared him half dead

00:01:00baru uko' netep keneh fem
and when the dog bit him

00:01:02necuk keneh kuman neh
I ordered him to eat him

00:01:03pengeh neh feh
after that

00:01:05kereb ieh pengeh nekuman dara' neh feh
when he has eaten the blood

00:01:07ba mangang tuu-tuu deh feh
then they really bark

00:01:09asal deh mangang peh
as long as they bark

00:01:09dih deh ngimet baka neh feh
then they get to have the wild boar

00:01:12naan baka nih feh kan
if they surround a boar

00:01:13dih deh nurung
then they bark at it

00:01:15buri' tau lun Bawang, nurung kekai kan, nurung
in Lun Bawang we call it "nurung"

00:01:17bang kereb neh feh
at that time

00:01:19neh oko' mangang tuu-tuu, mangang tuu-tuu
the dogs really bark

00:01:21ba senang
it's very easy

00:01:22asal peh ideh mangang
if they bark

00:01:23mangang baka
bark at a wild boar

00:01:25payo uen ngimet
or if they surround a sambar deer

00:01:26dih deh nekem mulun payo neh
they catch it alive, the sambar deer

00:01:28nekem mulun payo
they catch the deer alive

00:01:30nguit muli' me' ruma'
and bring it home

00:01:32neh cara uih kudeng luk nekap puung pakai oko'
that's how I hunt for animals with dogs

00:01:37pengeh neh teh
as well as that

00:01:38inan cerita' uih enun belajar kudeng peh uih ngunih telao
I have a story about how I learned to call for barking deer

00:01:43ngunih telao kan
calling for barking deer

00:01:44dih kai ngunih kedeh neh feh
we call for them

00:01:46muleng telao neh fem
and the barking deer appears

00:01:48dih ieh matun kemu
and when he comes closer to you

00:01:49dih ko madil telao neh
you shoot the barking deer

00:01:51dih ko nguit keneh
then you take it

00:01:52ba senang sineh
that one is easy

00:01:53tudo ko
you just sit down

00:01:54kudeng peh iko nganup
if you go hunting

00:01:56aneh ieh men, ngerada' oko' kan
you have to chase after the dogs

00:01:58asal oko' neh rat angang
if the dog barks badly

00:02:00medereh ko ngerada' angang men
it's difficult for you to follow the barks

00:02:02asal deh roo' angang feh megageh
if they bark well, it's quick

00:02:04kuk kuk kuk sekua
kuk kuk kuk once

00:02:05muneng, mate cu, mesenang
it's close by, he'll die quickly, easy!

00:02:08mesenang
easy

00:02:08asal oko' rat angang
if the dog barks badly

00:02:09dih ko narud
then you shout

00:02:10neh ko narud
you shout

00:02:11"oooh, oooh, iapeh oko', iapeh oko'?"
"oooh, where's the dog? where's the dog?"

00:02:14mado
far away

00:02:15nan tuda' batuh ko upun
then you run several miles

00:02:16asal uko' luk mileh
if the dog is smart

00:02:18mangang kudeng nih mecing sunih kan
and barks right up to a given point

00:02:20tuda' , kira tuda' aneh lah, mecing setengah aneh lah...
it could be several, what is it, half a...

00:02:24mangang kudeng nih me' su nih
if they bark like this up to this point

00:02:25tuda' rantai
then it is just a few meters

00:02:27cu deh nurung
then they bark straight away

00:02:28dih ko madil baka neh feh
and you shoot the boar

00:02:30pengeh dih ko nguit muli'
afterwards then you take it home

00:02:32kereb kai nguit...
when we take it home...

00:02:34kereb ko maya' ku lemulun mula'
when you follow a big group

00:02:37doo' ramai ieh tapi masalah ieh
it's lots of fun but there's a problem

00:02:40magi'-magi'-magi' kan
we have to divide it up

00:02:41pengeh neh sendiri uih feh
so I go by myself

00:02:43sendiri, bang kereb uih sendiri
when I'm on my own

00:02:47ngalap baka, mabeh, medereh
when I catch a boar and carry it, it's difficult

00:02:49berat tu-tuu neh
it's really heavy

00:02:50le-le bang, me'-me' waluh pulu'
it almost comes to 80

00:02:52waluh pulu' kilo mecing meratu kilo
80kg or 100kg

00:02:55mabeh mo', mabeh mung-mung, mabeh
you just have to carry, carry it all

00:02:57ba mait su nih
it's really painful here

00:02:59mabeh neneh
you carry it

00:03:00neh kerja lemulun bang kereb jaman maun
that was what people did in the past

00:03:03kereb aneh neh, kereb a teh dalan mecing tunge'
before the road came here

00:03:06neh kerja' tunge'
that was the work here

00:03:07me' ngalap baka, ngalap lemek kan
to get wild boar and get the fat

00:03:10deh nguba', aneh neh, nguba' naru' sineh ku pakai ngeriki
they melt it to use for frying

00:03:16nekinih minyak kacang pakai deh kan
today they use cooking oil

00:03:18neh cara lun maun
that's what the old people did

00:03:20deh, aneh deh maun
what did they do in the past

00:03:21ngemug narus baka neh bang deram neh
they stored the melted fat of the boar in a drum

00:03:24uen deh ngemug neh
the stored it

00:03:26neh neh ku giatan maun neh
that was something we did in the past

00:03:28bang kereb maun
in past times

00:03:29neh kerja uih kereb dih
that was my work at that time

00:03:31kereb uih me' pulung
when I went to the jungle

00:03:33nan cara beken teh
there are also other ways

00:03:35me' bang fa'
going to the river

00:03:36me' ngenub luang kan
going to dive for fish

00:03:38luang dih ngeten pukat
the fish, you set a net

00:03:40dih ko masut ki luang neh feh
then you disturb the fish

00:03:42masut keneh
disturb them

00:03:43neruruk keneh yang batang dih
and use a stick to get them out from under the log

00:03:44dih ko ngalap luang neh
then you catch the fish

00:03:45nan cara to'
then there is another way

00:03:47uih campur dengan bangsa Iban lah
I mixed a lot with the Iban

00:03:49ba beken deh peh
they are different

00:03:50pakai aneh deh, pakai senapang lawid kan
they use a fish gun

00:03:52nier bang neh
they look in

00:03:54dih deh madil luang neh
then they shoot the fish

00:03:55mula' bangsa nan arih campur lah
I mixed with lots of group

00:03:58me' neten keluit kan
we went to set fishing hooks

00:04:00keluit buung, keluit beladan
with eel or tortoise as bait

00:04:02belajar mung-mung ratnan inih lah
I learnt everything about that

00:04:04kudeng cara me' pulung
just like going into the jungle

00:04:06mula' macam
there are lots of ways

00:04:07me' ngilu' kah
you can go midnight hunting

00:04:08ngilu' anun?
midnight hunting for what?

00:04:11puung macam-macam, beruang
lots of different types of animal, bears

00:04:13uih pernah uih naneh, madil beruang kah
I have already done that, shot a bear

00:04:17narud dih
shouted at it

00:04:18kudeng nih beruang neh
that's how bears are

00:04:20beruang udung kayuh kuman bua' kiran hee', merecem
bears at the top of the tree eat kiran fruit, you know, in the dark

00:04:22narud neh
you shout at it

00:04:23temurut neh beruang neh
then the bear climbs down

00:04:26ngelawan hee'
and comes at you

00:04:28neh cara me' pulung
that's a way to hunt in the jungle

00:04:31kereb uih me' pulung
when I go into the jungle

00:04:33kereb a senapang, medereh
when there were no guns, it was hard

00:04:34medereh mayung baka
it was difficult to spear boars

00:04:36baka me' ngetep hee' ngelawan
they bite you, attack you

00:04:37paksa pakai karit hee'
you are forced to use your parang

00:04:39pakai karit sama gaman kan
use a parang and a spear

00:04:42pernah uih neh naneh, neperefeh baka kan
one time I noticed a wild boar

00:04:45dih uih mayung keneh
so I speared it

00:04:47ooh ngelawan ngetep ieh gaman neh kan
oooh, he attacked, he bit the spear

00:04:49pengeh neh dih uih naneh keneh mayung keneh sunih peh kan
after that, I speared him here

00:04:53mate
and he died

00:04:54pengeh neh inan beruh to'
after that there was another one

00:04:55eyyh pelaba dereh dueh
so difficult with two of them

00:04:58pengeh neh feh dih uih mayung ki baka
afterwards, I speared the wild boar

00:04:59dih uih naneh keneh, ngened keneh bang fa' lah
and drowned him in the river

00:05:03kudeng neh cara mereh
that's a difficult way

00:05:04ba dereh kudeng me' bang pulung kan
so difficult to go into the jungle

00:05:07nan lemulun uen ngetep baka
there are people who have been bitten by wild boar

00:05:09uih, pernah nan baka nengetep kukud uih to'
ike me, I have had a wild boar bite my leg

00:05:12anak baka ieh
it was a baby boar

00:05:13dih uih me' naneh keneh kan, me' nekem keneh
and I went to catch it

00:05:16kitep ieh bua' kukud uih
and he bit my toe