Camping in the Jungle

Robin Udau talks about camping in the jungle when he was younger using the Long Banga dialect of Sa'ban. The recording was made in Long Banga on 1st December 2017.

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00:00:02ok amai malaan éraat nai
so we walked from here

00:00:05mai diep lem plueng
and went to sleep in the jungle

00:00:06kai arai nnau éraat waai ataupun mai éraat Long Peluan
if I remember from here or from Long Peluan

00:00:10diep lem plueng ngaai
we went to sleep in the jungle

00:00:11an amai si' paau ai
we made a hut

00:00:14an paau ún ayeu
made a hut from tree leaves

00:00:16aroo' ataang-ataang hoo'
they made the structure

00:00:19pi nah aroo' ún ayeu
after that they put the leaves on

00:00:21pi an deh ntap-ntap sewéeng ayeu arii-arii
then they chopped some trees into small bits

00:00:24adiek-adiek
into small bits

00:00:25an arai mpén yeh si' nah
then we lay them piece by piece

00:00:27nah nah naan arai diep lah
that's where we slept

00:00:30pi nah naan noon taam...?
and we had what do we call it...?

00:00:36alam am plastic bah
we didn't have plastic in the past

00:00:37wét anok bah, oong lah
we took an "oong" raincover

00:00:40oong nah an arai
we made a raincover

00:00:41oong liit dei hoo'
it was called "oong liit"

00:00:42an arai liit yeh
we laid it out

00:00:43nah naan arai diep
that was where we slept

00:00:45nonoh ddúet arai diep
that's how we slept

00:00:47mwal arai
we cooked

00:00:48alaak pei' lem aroel hoo'
took water from the stream

00:00:51nah naan arai alaak pei' naan mwal
that was where we got water to cook with

00:00:53otak ceh éraat waai pah
if you go from here

00:00:55mai diep lem plueng
and sleep in the jungle

00:00:57mesti ceh wét brée
you need to bring rice

00:00:58wét brée-brée lah
you bring rice

00:00:59wét den
and a rice pot

00:01:01ko' am naan masa ceh mai alaak leu' kah
because there isn't enough time to fetch bamboo

00:01:04adieu-adieu si' nah hoo'
the place where it grows is far away

00:01:06am tah lé' leu' lah
you can't see bamboo

00:01:07so nah naan wét den
so you have to bring a rice pot

00:01:09wét noknan lah
and bring food

00:01:11nah pu'uen alam, am noknan arai ko' ddúet anok ai hoo'
in the past, we didn't have food like today

00:01:16ko' ddúet tin stuff lah
like tinned stuff

00:01:17ataupun tin sardine lah hoo'
or tinned sardines

00:01:19am sardine
there were no sardines

00:01:20jadi biasanya naan lún ngaan arai hoo'
but usually there were people with us

00:01:24lún ma' mraal ai lah
adults

00:01:27mai deh raat hoo'
they went hunting

00:01:28mai deh raat naan noknan amai lah
they hunted stuff for us to eat

00:01:30ataupun wét wang araal
or we brought smoked meat

00:01:32wét abieu al
or brought chicken

00:01:35aroo' goreng lah
to fry

00:01:36atau hroel al nah tan arai mai ngaai
or we brought eggs

00:01:38pi plaak lah
already cooked

00:01:40nonoh noknan arai hoo'
that's what we ate

00:01:42ok, tapi yang penting naan seu'
but the most important thing is that there was salt

00:01:45ok, nah yeh
ok, that's that