Volume 02 Item 02: Walter Edmund Roth Bulletin No. 9 Burial Ceremonies and Disposal of the Dead, 1904-1906 - Page 7

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galmba. Warka-ngamu gari, mundalgo bera Ngando ngai
              [??         ???]    not     some   certain Women
melbi  duyungu nadega dana gaualtchirgo ungga
message corpse-of having heard they scream-with weeping
batcheltchil gura dalmbakabalbaya bobo-we, gura
cry              and throw themselves ground-on, and
bama Kaimbalmbal. Dirainggur galmba ungga
man  blame.             Old men     also    wailing
batchil gura gari gauwaltchirgo galmba gari bama
cry     and(but) not  scream-with also not man
Kaimbalmbal ungga-wego, garko bera dana ganilnda
blame          crying,           by & by certainly they song-with
Kaimbalmbal makobadaigo. Gura dana wudur godera
blame            always.           And they nights two
barbega gura dana  Kadara duyungu, dirainggur ngando-ngai
having slept then they come the dead-for, old men women
[Indecipherable]
he friends their, from the very first not having met