That’s all la cloud (ngumulu). Yeah, all them clouds, the white one. When that cloud been coming he been starting to make a rain. When he been start clouding, he...
That’s all la cloud (ngumulu). Yeah, all them clouds, the white one. When that cloud been coming he been starting to make a rain. When he been start clouding, he been start raining. A little, little rain, he been coming like a wet season. He been starting a big rain, and he been making the ground soft. That water been coming in, that water became a flood. He been climbing that big water, right up to the house. He been coming inside all la houses. And he was knocking them down. That big water been knocking down all la houses, and he been taking all the dogs too. We feel sorry for the dogs, poor fellas. That warrambany (flood water) been frightening everyone, you know. All the people they been running away. We been frightened - might drown us. We go to Mirrilinki, to a dry place. All them kids, poor fellas, they might get drowned in the water, they been all take ‘em to Mirrilinki. They been ringing up the helicopter, and that helicopter he been taking all the girls and kids and everyone, taking them all to that village. All the gardiya (white people) been getting sorry for us and take us to that village, where it was dry. We been in them gardiya houses. Four months we been there, la village. And now, a er four months, we been come back. We been glad to come back home, you know. But we feel sorry from that water.