Walking in the Jungle

00:00:00ko' ddúet amai malaan lem plueng nah
when we walked in the jungle

00:00:03kai sieu ndiin nai
if it rained

00:00:05loe' pi-pi lematak
there were loads of leeches

00:00:07loe' pi-pi lematak
loads of leeches

00:00:09naan lematak ma' anok ai, ma' tam-tam ai
there are the black leeches

00:00:13naan ma' biriet-biriet ai hoo'
and there are stripey ones

00:00:15ma' biriet-biriet nah, beltaa' dei nah
the stripey ones go up the body

00:00:18mai si' leu arai ndeh pah
they go on your head

00:00:20mai si' anok arai
or other parts of the body

00:00:22et pi-pi an yeh
and it really hurts

00:00:24noon taam?
what do we say?

00:00:26jatal pi-pi an nok hnah
they make you really itchy

00:00:28dei ma' libeu-libeu tau
the ones that get really big

00:00:30an deh ntap kuet arai tau
they bite your foot

00:00:32an deh mwat nah arée' arai bah
and suck your blood

00:00:35tau libeu-libeu nyeh tau
when they get really big

00:00:39ttoo' ndeh
they fall off

00:00:40nah lematak
so that's leeches

00:00:43et pi-pi
that's really bad

00:00:43nah nok et ai
that's the worst

00:00:44amai alam, kai pei' raah ai
in the past, when the river was high

00:00:47toe', toe' pei'
we used to cross the river

00:00:49buka' anok arai
we took our stuff off

00:00:51nonoh ddúet arai toe' pei'
that was how we crossed the river

00:00:53Mréeal kah, pei' noon tah si' nah ngaai
Pei' Mbreal over there, or whatever river it was

00:00:55pei' Kelapang si' nah ngaai
Pei' Kelapang over there

00:00:58naan amai toe'
that was where we crossed

00:00:59kai pei' ciek, wei'
if the water was low, it was easy

00:01:01kai anok ai, am
otherwise, not so much

00:01:03pakai lahét amai bah toe' mai pelyaai
used rafts to cross to the other side

00:01:06mai lem pei' ngaai dei
to get to the other side

00:01:08nonoh ddúet amai alam
that's what we did

00:01:09kai sieu wei', ok
if the weather was good, then ok

00:01:10am noon abei
no problem

00:01:12am tah loe' lematak
there weren't so many leeches

00:01:14tapi kkot érang
but climbing uphill

00:01:17berjam-jam arai kkot érang nah
it took ages to climb uphill

00:01:19dei tah arai sieng ttaa' ngaai hoo'
before you reach the top

00:01:21pi nah malaan arai mai ngaai pah
after that we walked for a long time over there

00:01:23nonoh ddúet yeh
that's how it was

00:01:24ok nonoh ddúet amai mai malaan lem plueng
so that's how we walked in the jungle

00:01:27ayah, nok tah breu
oh yeah, one more thing

00:01:30otak yeh ndiin hoo'
if it rained

00:01:31ken awaai wét si' oong
someone would bring a raincover

00:01:32nonoi ddúet yeh pah
it was like this

00:01:34am men lún waan payong
people didn't have umbrellas

00:01:36am lún waan plastic, anok
people didn't have plastic or whatever

00:01:38memang yeh made-of aroo' éraat noon ai lah, ún hoo'
so it was made of leaves

00:01:43ún noon taam dei?
what do we call those leaves?

00:01:45an deh anok yeh pah
they make it up

00:01:47nah tan amai bah
that's what we carry