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Akan mampamangat tamuei kawan
paharii kareh, Rambang kabuate dia
maku indengan haguet manyelek.
Sulaka ie murik batang danum Kahayan,
limbah te sungei Miri tuntang balalu
jakat pagunungan Muller-Schwanner
mahalau sua Duhi, inyewut kilau kau
hirah awi jalaa are duhi.
Intu hunjun puruk Uhing Doung
je basila due, Rambang tapaksa bapikir
tutu. Inangkajuk dia ulih, muhun dia
tau kea awi handalem tutu tuntang cagat
tiwinge.
Rambang balalu maneweng ije
kabatang upun tabalien je balalu
impalihange bahalang intu hunjun silan
puruk te. Hila hunjun upun tabalien te
imparata isut, edan tuntang rantinge
inganan. Gawi je tikas mahapan mandau
te jadi kuman waktu telu andau katahie.
Limbah dimpah tuntang muhun
bara hunjun puruk kan hila pambelum
gitan ih batang danum Mahakam je
lumbah, panjang tuntang kulur-keler
kilau handipe hayak kihame je tamam.
Asep banipis gitan mandai kahunjun
bara kejau, je te lewu Rangan Pulang je
cagar inyarang.
Rambang Haguet Manyelek
Rambang Pergi Menyelidik
Rambang Went To Investigate
Untuk memudahkan pengembaraan
saudara-saudaranya nanti, Rambang
seorang diri tanpa mau ditemani pergi
menyelidik. Mula-mula ia memudiki
sungai Kahayan, kemudian sungai Miri
dan lalu mendaki pegunungan Muller-
Schwanner lewat sua Duhi (sua artinya
jalan pintas, sedang duhi artinya duri),
disebut demikian mungkin karena
jalannya banyak duri.
Di puncak bukit Uhing Doung yang
terbelah dua, Rambang terpaksa berfikir
keras. Diloncati tidak dapat, dituruni
tidak mungkin pula sebab sangat dalam
dan curam.
Rambang lalu menebang sebatang
kayu ulin yang lalu direbahkannya
melintang di atas belahan bukit itu. Sisi
atas batang kayu itu diratakan seadanya,
dahan dan rantingnya dipotong.
Pekerjaan yang hanya menggunakan
mandau (senjata tradisional suku Dayak,
sejenis parang) itu telah memakan waktu
tiga hari lamanya.
Setelah menyeberang dan turun
dari atas bukit ke arah timur terlihatlah
sungai Mahakam yang lebar, panjang
dan berliku-liku bagaikan ular dengan
To make the journey easier for
his brothers later, Rambang went out
himself to investigate. First, he went
down the Kahayan River, and then the
Miri River, then he climb the Muller-
Schwanner mountains trough sua duhi
(sua means short cut, duhi means thorn),
perhaps it was named so because there
were lots of thorns on the way.
On top of the two splitting Uhing
Doung Hill, Rambang had to think
hard. He could not jump over it nor
climbed down because it was very deep
and steep.
Rambang then cut down an
ironwood and then he put it down
horizontally over the splitting cliff.
He flattened the top side, cut off the
branches and twigs, all done by using
only a mandau (a traditional Dayak
weapon, a kind of big knife) for three
days.
After crossing over and went down
hill toward the east, he could see the
wide, long, and snake-like Mahakam
River. From the distance, he saw a thin
smoke coming up from a village that was
the target, Rangan Pulang village.
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