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me, my name is

ge nō isok nge

my name is Kelvin

isok nge Kelvin

Sangul

Sangul

today

rēma

this afternoon I will talk about

bililēn gole nab tousili

I will talk about what now

nab tousili go ngenge mwiir be ngenge

'li bolrame' in our language

li bolrame lan rolon gēmēm

in the big language they call it 'kava'

lan solō go tobo lam gile kava

in our language we call it 'li bolrame'

lan rolon gēmēm o mēm gile li bolrame

which we take

go nge ru lam uri

every afternoon we take it like

bililēn sēlanga lam uri mwee barne

we take it like

lam uri mwee

like food

mōn mane mēlee

they are taking it maybe in the afternoons, they take it first and then they are just eating afterwards

ru lam uri lon taem mebi bililēn lam uri bwe o lam bwiri ru lam yēn

and I will talk about how now

rō ēnab tousili go mwiir be ngenge

they, we are just

lam mēm bwiri ru mēm

it came and stayed with us, how did it come?

meme ru saane gēmēm meme mwiir be

a long time ago

marin konkon

kava didn't exist with us here, it was just the wild kava which was in these gardens here

li bolrame tiranga ru saane gēmēm le tee go nga moso lon bubuōr yēl le

and that which they plant in the gardens did not exist

a go nge ru lam bebya lonōr lonōr yēl le tiranga toso

then

rō

we didn't know what kava was, we didn't know how they drank kava

gēmēm mēr fōn kilbwele see nge li bolrame mēr fōn kil bwēle o tu lar minmini li bolrame tiir be

and one of our old men, his name was Sangul

rō sēmēmriēl yaalfu marō go isan nge Sangul

another one is called Byungkon

rō hol mōn isan nge Byungkon

the other one was called Charlie

rō hol isan nge Charlie

then

rō

the first born of them, Sangul then he took this kava

tōmō ne gilil nge Sangul rō tuuri li bolrame go gole

it comes from someplace , we don't know, we don't know, we just came

me nubur hol mēr fōn kil mirir fōn kil bwēle mēm bwiri me

came and saw that it was planted already in the gardens

me sē go me bya so bur lonōr

he came and planted it in his garden in the garden with his food

me bya so lon san ōr lonōr mane an mēlee yēl

then he too he did not know that they were

rō nge mōn tōlō kil bwēle go ru lam

why they were taking the kava

ru lam uriri li bolrame gole miir be

or they were they were drinking it

o ru lam ru lam minmini

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miir be ?

how? he didn't know he just planted it

tōlō kil bwēle mwebya nga ru o

and in

mō lon

he followed the path that he thought that

usili silil go mwerame go

it was something that was really good, like a medicine, o it was a herbal medicine that

mwee tiri hol ru go mue tēn mwee meresin hol ru bwe o mwee wē loko hol ru go

helps people's bodies

abokone tabolon ēntēn

he didn't know

tōlō kil bwēle

how they were making it

ru lam yēne miir be

he went then

mean ngela

he came and planted it in the garden until the time where they were calling out to the people to go in his fallow gardens to burn them

me bya yēl so lonōr van taem go ngenge lam bwiri lam ke ēntēn yēl ru lam ke me ru lam ke van lon san botoltol yēl ru lam fane

that kava they cut it out from

li bolrame gole lam ta kuku myōronēn

his fallow gardens

san ōr lonōr botoltol yēl

he didn't know yet, they didn't know that

tōlō kil bwēle bwe ēntēn yēl latlō kil bwēle go

they were drinking kava

ru lam minmini li bolrame

it went until the time where he

van mean rekale taem go nge nga mōn

he walked to the other villages

mwētēltēle lan vēle riri yēl

he went and found out that this thing

mean sob byōrobne go tiri gole

this kava they are drinking

li bolrame gole ru lam miinmiin

they were

ru lam

they were drinking it then

ru lam mini rō

went and found out that they were making it they were coming and it was becoming herbal medicine

van sob byōrobne go ru lam yēne ru lam yēne ru meme ru mwee wē loko

tha they made it they didn't squeeze its leaves, they were making it with the trunk

go lam yēne latlō fuune lore en ru lam yēne baal ēn

he went and found out like that that they were

mean sob byōrobne go mwiir la go ru lam

making it and they were drinking it

ru lam yēne o ru lam mini

then he came and talked about it

ngarō meme mēsēlsēla

that this thing, they are drinking it

go tiri gole ru lam mini

he told his two brothers who were there

sēlsēla vanen taalan gilēl gogōlō nga lom so la

with

manen

his two brother-in-laws, those two came and saw at that time

san yok gogōlō ru lom meme me ru lom sēsē lon taem go ngenge

he was there

muru ru le

in his village there

lon san tēlēnēm le

he talked about the custom of

mwēsēlsēla ruēn ne

this kava that they were just making, then

li bolrame gole ru lam yēne nga rō

one time they said they should try it that they should drink that kava

taem hol lim gile lib biak se go ēlib mini li bolrame gole

then they didn't know how to make it

rō latlō kil bwēle tiri go lab yēne lon

they just knew then they will grate it

lim kil bwēle nga rō o lim lib le

they cut them like these here

lim tee mwiir yēl le

they cleaned it like this

lim kokone mwiir le

OK they grated it

ale lim le

they made a grater for it with which they are grating laplap with

lim tu biyɔɔl ēn mōn mane go ru lam le lok

then they grated it

rō lim le

they grated and grated and grated it

lim le le le le le

then they grated

rō lim le

something which they call

tiri go lam gile

coconut husk

waun ne ōl

coconut frond netting

wowa

coconut frond netting

wowa ne wowa ne ōl

which they cut, which grows around the top of the coconut palm

go lim tee go muluk ru gele mir ne ōl

they sliced this thing like that

lim tu lim tu kore tiri gola mogon mane

like, they will use it like a net

mōn mane ēlib yusum abogon mane net

they will use it like a sieve where they will sieve

ēlib yusum abogon mane siv go ēlib sivim

the kava here to drink it

li bolrame gole go ēlib mini

squeeze it, then

fuune afta ne

which they finish squeezing

go lim fuune monok

they squeeze

lim fuune

the kava until it is done, then

li bolrame monok ale

they

lim

they will sieve the kava here now, they

ēlib sivim li bolrame gole ngele lim

if I took the netting I would show you the way to do it

gile nasa uri wowa ēn butu le bosa ir la nar bisene silil go ru lam yēne

they make it, they sieve it

go lam yēne lim sivim

they pour it

lim libne

this kava through this netting

li bolrame gole tale wowa gole

it is done, the dirt is removed

mwēyēne go ngenge mēfēl ku totiēn monok

Ok it is full in a coconut shell

ale mwēfwēl van lon bwēle ōl

now they just drink it

o lim bwiri mini siir

OK they drink the kava, when they try and drink it like this then

ale mini li bolrame bone go lim miin se nga mwiir le rō