19, 2 Scheerer: Texts from Balbaldésang-Gindang 191 
PHYAIPHYAYASANG BALBALASANG 
(Pattékyan) (Patikian) 
SACHAT IPHUAYAN NANGAYAU UD THOSE FROM BUAYA GO ON A HBAD- 
PATTEKYAN HUNT TO PATIK{AN 
1. Sat osan ai-aikau iningkau 
chad Iphuadyan nangaéyau ud 
Pattékyan. Awad kad chatén 
takin nampdaipod Phuaya t6- 
yumpuyu cha ot lima. 
2. Umachanicha man ud Pat- 
tékyan umilléngcha yan ta 
mangancha ta payét naphilog- 
chan makapatoi si kancha. 
3. Umya lamong ot tai ining- 
kau osdn layakin Ipattékyana 
umm6i mangayu-wot awad kad- 
ton ina nangaytiwan siat kapo- 
ngaton chit umillongan chat 
phisoi. 
4. Ot mampokpok man sit 
awitoénan kayu iningkau chad 
tumotoling-nga chingngéina ot 
manischung man chopya ining- 
kau chad mankakana taki. 
5. Nakitak si ogyatna ta sa- 
chit os-ossAan osyAé. Mangwa 
si silip ot ok-6yona chit chak- 
kéya phyaté6-wot itopakna man 
chopya nipunta sit kawachan 
chat phisoi on mankakan. 
1. On a certain day there 
were men from Buaya going 
on a head-hunt to Patikian. 
As for those men come from 
Buaya they were thirty-five. 
2. When they came near to 
Patikian they sat down to rest 
a while and to eat in order to 
be strong to fight, as they said 
to themselves. 
3. However, there was a man 
from Patikian who had gone to 
cut wood and as for the place 
to which he had gone to cut 
the wood it was just above the | 
resting place of the enemies. 
4, And while cutting his load 
of wood there were the sounds 
of talking people heard by him 
and when he looked down wist- 
fully there were people who 
were eating. 
5. Excessive was his fear for 
he was quite alone. He used a 
stratagem: he picked up a big 
stone and dropped it downhill 
hitting the place where the ene- 
mies were eating. 
1. nangayau, past of mangayau who goes headhunting. 
nampdipo, compare: Nampaipuam? 
Where do you come from? 
2. umachani one approaching, past wmmachani. 
naphilog who or what is strong; a form with prefix ma does not exist. 
kancha means primarily “they say” or “said” but probably also “they 
thought.” 
3. tai, also pronounced tei or te. 
Ipattékyana, the final a is the connective particle. 
nangayu from kéyu wood. 
kapongaton, for kapangaton? 
