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I want to tell the story of kitefishing.

Lo / dalaghugne te rongorongoli teizu.

Kitefishing is, you take off the sago leaves.

Lo / dalaghue, / nova lo kalogho te sapili sua.

You take off the sago leaves, then you have to sew them.

Kalogho sapili tuka, / nova sukilighue lo na.

Sewing it, you finish sewing it, then you also look for its cobweb bushwards.

Sukili tuka, / no sukili laju kia, / nova ghoi kao / lova polozi zalalighue lo na.

You are looking for it, you also come and coil it on a stick.

Zalali zeno, / ghoi ba / kola la virilighue lo na.

Coil it up, and then you take a coconut husk, and now you will wattle the fibres of this coconut husk with it, the cobweb.

Virili kia, / nova lo penu te laughue lo na; lo penu lo mumuno te ekati, / lo la te / ghalololi tai lolo / polozi.

And then you finish taking off the wattled string, you, you tie it to the wattled string (between kite and bait).

Kia nova te, / mane s- / ghalolo suali laju kia, nova / nova lo m- / ghalolo la pitilighue lo na.

You tie it, and when wind comes

Pitili kia, / lo ba ghulighuli kia.

When it becomes windy, you take the canoe seawards.

Lo ba ghulighuli kia, no te / lo mola lau kulighue.

You take the canoe seawards, when you arrive seawards, you will now hit the bait down on the sea. (It will inflate by taking water in)

Mola lau kuli zeno, / bo kulo sara kiano kati lo polozi neu lo gnagnui la te lali tai.

When you hit it, when the bait swells,

Lali kia, / lo polozi lova unu kia.

when it swells, you tie it to the (kite) leaves.

Lova unu kia, nova / lo kiba la pitilighue lo na.

Two strings will be tied to the leaves.

Edo miligha te pitili sue lo kiba la.

One up at the bottom of the kite going down, and one being down, they coil it to take it up high.

Pae tagha lo dala pozogho latu au sua zu pae neutu te ze virivirili lau pia sua.

And now you will show it at the head of the wind.

Tuka nova elakati lo ghulighuli lo batu ota nova zaughalighue.

You show it, and if it (the wind) hits it properly, you will take it high up.

Zaughali te lo kati lo ba epili serali kia; / kia, / nova te lau piaghue lo na.

When it goes up, the wind takes it up higher.

Pia kia lo ghulighuli lo lau zelo tagha piaghue lo na.

If it climbes up, it, you see the bait coming behind on the sea.

Pia zelo tialo m-, / nov(a) leghea te lo polozi lova / ba / rere kia lo gnagnui la.

Then you hold it there (on that height).

Kia nova ota / late lovughue lo na.

When you hold it there, you start paddling.

Late lovu kia, nova alu ghavighue.

When you paddle and you go,

Ghavi kia no te no boghue.

the bait will come behind.

Lolo polozi lova elakati / rere ba kia.

It has a sound on the sea, if the swordfish is staying around there, it will now jump at it.

Ngeigha lavae lo gnagnui lae; kati ota malamala alalia, / lo malole na pale tai tei kia, / elakatilo soghavili tai.

It jumps at it, runs for it.

Soghavili zelo raghevili.

And if it is the place of a school of swordfish not (only) one will run.

Zu lo malole lo sobo sua mavu(tue) tei kia oma pade n(a) te raghetu.

The strong one will then later come and eat the bait.

Laqa sua na te mane elakati, / l- ba l- l- lou tai lo polozi.

And then the leaves (kite) is falling.

Kia ekati lo kiba lo te taughue lo na.

When it comes and eats (the bait) the leaves (kite) will fall, and you will already pull (the fish).

Lo ba lou kia lo kiba lo tau kia, no te ka(ma) raghilighue lo na.

When you pull it, you pull it, take it already in the canoe, you have to break its neck.

Raghili kia, nova raghili, / ka m- / mola la lau ba kia no te lo tua qololighue.

Break it, throw it in, throw it in the canoe, and it is then not like a fishing hook you, you take out.

Qololi pale solo / mola la sologhue zu oma te mane, / kenaghuli loghoni nova / nova pisuli sue.

You really (take it in your) mouth, put it in your mouth and pull it (the fish) and then free it (from the bait).

No napu toa la te, / nova lo no- / napu lovu lau alea te lo raghili tukalo te mane, / pisuza sue.

Then you let it (the kite) go up again.

Kia no ghoi / lovu lau piaghue.

When you put it up again, then already you go on pulling.

Ghoi lovu lau pia ke, / elakati no te ka raghili lau bo te pale tai.

This is all of the story of the kite.

Tei sue te ailo / dala lova / rongorongo na.

Yes, this is the end of my story.

E lo zuighue lo na lo aiva rongorongo na.