A SEA-DAYAIv DIRGE. 
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20 — “Peda kra ploh bla- 
kang kitai ! Baka en- 
seluang ikan kali, ploh 
tuboh kitai baka teng- 
kujoh ujan sa hari. 
21 — “Peda kra ploh dai 
baka ujan sa hari la- 
boh beteratak, ploh 
idong baka grunong 
burai tenggak. 
22 — “Mandi me kitai wai 
Luji, ka ai bekasai 
langkang, pegai kendi 
kitai ti beta n do k 
jengang, prempong ka 
tangkong labu dalang, 
pegai pugu entemu 
langkang, klamudak 
olih nyulok di tengkah 
tebiang. 
23 — -“Kebu ka pintu bandir 
tapang, kesai ka le- 
lambai baka kantok 
ubi pulang.” 
24—Nvau ngembing bind¬ 
ing baka siring seng- 
kajang, nyau tetigong 
ka lesong man tetung- 
gang. 
“See the perspiration on 
our backs ! It is like the 
enseluang kali fish, and 
the perspiration on our 
bodies is like a sudden 
fresh after a day’s rain. 
“See the perspiration of the 
forehead like the rainfall 
of a whole day! The 
perspiration of the nose 
like the hawk-bells on a 
necklace. 
“Come and bathe friend 
Luji. To the water 
and let us scour our 
bodies; bring the brass 
kettles with the large 
spouts, hold a number of 
the horn-shaped dalang 
gourds ; bring a lump of 
turmeric and the wood 
that was riven from the 
stem of the klamudak 
which grows in precipi¬ 
tous places. 
“Fling open the door—the 
door that is made of the 
buttress of a tapang tree ; 
send flying the coat that 
is like the young shoot of 
the yam pulang.” 
There, they are g o i n g 
along by the wall—the 
wall that is striped like a 
piece of sengkajang 
wood. There, they have 
run into the paddy pound¬ 
ing mortar that is made 
of the twisted grained 
ruan wood. 
‘20 . — Kali means nothing and is simply put in' to rhyme. 
22 — Turmeric is used by Da yak women for colouring their bodies. 
The leaves of Klamadalc lather like soap and are used as soap by the 
Dayaks. 
2:3. Tapang tree is the special bee tree, the buttress of which is used by 
Dayaks for doors. 
Yam induing (or pulai) is tbe yam left the previous year in order to grow 
the following year when the land is farmed again. 
