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p1	Dede kinnimbi ngini tye apukek dede. Anne: I was living here, at a camp downstream.

p2	Wabuymenggarri nyin wunu ngani nyinyi gimin There was a whitefella like you down there,

p3	piwari nem Alexander by the name of Alexander.

p4	Alexander? Nick: Alexander?

p5	wa nyinda waddine wurrkama. Ngayi wureti ninggi kirri. Anne: yeah, they all worked for him. I was just a girl.

p6	Kalayi ngayi ngatyayi ngayi waddine wurrkama, ya awa tyityipi awa Marringarr waddi wurrkama. My mum and dad worked for him, and most of the Marringarr mob were working there too.

p7	A waddi wurrkama tye yaga miyi pinat apirri ne miyi pinat wurru They'd been working there from before, with the peanuts,

p8	werrem pup waddi. they werew all planting them.

p9	Miyi nyinda waddi wurrkama awaMarringarr. All the Marringarr mob did that kind of planting work.

p10	Awa tyityipi nginni tye dede nyinnin. There were a lot of us camped there.

p11	Wanyinnin And that whitefella,

p12	falmi buymenggarri deti deme babaty tye dini, he had a wife there too,

p13	membirr and he had kids,

p14	me kinyi, about five,

p15	membirr nem wayinnin, as the kids of that man,

p16	Alexander. that Alexander.

p17	Tyamirri, Anyway,

p18	falmi falmi nyinnin, falmi nem, that woman, that wife of his was really nice,

p19	yubu yedi tye, wadde tye yubu. they were both good people.

p20	A falmi wurtyikmembi ninggi kana But one Aboriginal woman there

p21	wulek yedi tye. she sort of did the wrong thing

p22	Wanyin kana wadde tutu tundumuy. and was having a secret affair with him.

p23	Wurnyin kana falmi nem nginifiny dinyerre mityip, Now when his real wife found out,

p24	'e falmi tyikmempi werri yenim' ‘Ah, so he has a black girl too’,

p25	mem. she realised.

p26	Yenim fili membirr ngayim werri kak yedi tye dede, So she upped and left with her kids, and went off

p27	dede muyeyi pefi kana. to some other place.

p28	Wanyinnin ngan demewirr babaty dini wurrkama. And he stayed on to keeping working us there.

p29	Nginni tye, We stayed there

p30	dede errike nawa nginni tye dede wunu. for I don't know how long at that place.

p31	Ngatyayi ngayi kana menne, Then he said to my dad

p32	‘Ngawamdirrki ngini kana kak’, 'I'd like to take you two away’,

p33	dede yeyi kana pefi ngaddi tye. and so we set off to a new place.

p34	Ngayi wurweti ninggi kalayi, I was just a little girl and my mum,

p35	ngatyayi, and my dad,

p36	membirrki 'kakana ngawamdirrki ngini'. he told them 'Come on, I'm taking you two away’.

p37	Dede nyin pefi kana ganggi ngirriny tyerr. So we set off for a new place upstream.

p38	Ooloo nimbi dede wunu pefi kana dede nyin fam And in that country further up there past Ooloo, a new farm,

p39	dem wurity. was what he set about building.

p40	Tyagani mem buldasya ninggi With one of those bulldozer things,

p41	wupun palat, wakay. He cleared it all up.

p42	E trukta kana yedi tye, And there was a tractor,

p43	yedi wurrkama tye menem deti wanyinnin, and dad worked on that himself,

p44	waputy nemta ngatyayi ngayi. he had sole responsibility for it, my dad.

p45	Waddi wurrkama tye, So they worked there,

p46	awayeyi deti awa … and others too,

p47	Tupurerri nimbi waddi nyin deti. from Tipperary Station came over as well.

p48	Masyiwan kinyi ka, Masyiwan here,

p49	tyemetyeme her granddads

p50	fagarri both of them

p51	waddi nyin deti, merritmen merritmen waddi dede nyinda. they were there too, as were their wives.

p52	E helpum wirrmene wurrkama kana, And they all helped him work,

p53	mi pinat kana with the peanuts,

p54	werre pup tye waddi. they were planting them.

p55	A dede nyin napadeti ngagadi tye nganam fital. So that was the place were I grew up.

p56	Tyamirri ngaddi tye, gagu Then we went off hunting,

p57	ewerrmisya kana for crocodiles.

p58	werrbe dada waddi. They were shooting them,

p59	Werrbe dada waddi and shooting them.

p60	bakuty, The shot a huge number of them,

p61	dede wuni Doris Vale pefi right up around Doris Vale,

p62	nyinda. there.

p63	Gagu ngunni fulful kana gagu nyinin ba wirrimta wunni fulful. And we used to skin them, well I should say - they used to skin them!

p64	Ngayi tyaminapa ngini, Because as far as I went

p65	wurweti ninggi wurru ngagadi tye I was still a young girl,

p66	depi kerre. about this big.

p67	Dede nyin napa deti ngagadi tye nganam fital. And I grew up travelling around that country.

p68	A ngannim Then we moved

p69	dede wuni pefi kana ganggi ngirriny tyerr Borooloola pefi kana ngaddi tye. and went higher upstream to a place heading towards Booroloola.

p70	Gagu nyin pefi kana wayeyi deti, And there was this other fella there for fishing too,

p71	were nem wanyinnin Alexander's brother,

p72	wa gagu who fished,

p73	awakul wurru walipan wunu wuty yerri he used to throw a net

p74	syewe ka nyinnin. into the sea for fish.

p75	Prisya yerrkerre werri He had a big freezer

p76	e murriga yerrkerre. and a big truck.

p77	Ngaddi wanyin pefi kana elpimat, So we ended up going there to help him out,

p78	gagu ngini. with the fishing.

p79	Elp yedine, werewere nem. We helped him, and both brothers with the hunting.

p80	Ngaddi tye nyin pefi, So we went there,

p81	nem felfi dini, ngagurr wuni pefi felfi nginni, ewerrmisya and he camped alone there, and we camped by ourselves over here, and the crocs

p82	werrbe dada waddi. they were shooting them.

p83	A nguddeni wul pagu ngaddi Tawun, Eventually we went back to Darwin,

p84	wakinyi Ritytil wuni kana dini tye dede, this bloke here, Ridgedale, was living there then,

p85	Tawun. in Darwin.

p86	Nyin pefi kana ngerrme baty ngaddi And we took them in,

p87	agarrfuri all those skins,

p88	anyinnin nem nide wakinyi. to this guy you see here.

p89	E nganni fime peyk peyk peyk errike. And we delivered bag after bag after bag of them.

p90	Tyamirri peyrrey kana mani danningirr fime Come payday, he'd give us money,

p91	ngagurr a nyinda ten bob werri. like each of us ten bob.

p92	a ten tyiling ... Molly: or sometimes ten shillings?

p93	a tu pound werri nyinnin. Anne: or sometimes two pounds.

p94	A nginni peyi, Anyway after we'd been there for a bit,

p95	tyamirri nguddeni wul deti dede nyin pefi kana ngan dede ngagurr kinyi pefi fam, we came back to our place again, to the farm.

p96	nyin kana nginni. and settled there.

p97	Nginni tye pefi, We stayed a while,

p98	mumba yeyi kana tye ngarrani tye, then we were supposed to go some other place,

p99	wetimbi ngatyayi ngayi wulek menggin wa ngirre. but my dad went downhill on us.

p100	Tyikpala kana bengim baty He'd come down with something,

p101	kerre, like really serious,

p102

a then,

p103	mumba gen'ge deti tyagani mem kuru wusum waty while we were on the road, something happened and he just died,

p104	wakay. finished!

p105	Wunu pefi kana ngerrme babaty tye ngaddi, Amungal pefi nyin tyaminapa kana. We took his body back, till we got to Adelaide River.

p106	Nyinda nguddupun tyuk, And from there we sent him on,

p107	ngatyayi ngayi, dad's body,

p108	yedi tye wunu pefi kana Tawun. on to Darwin.

p109	Ngagurr syirre syirre nyinnin wap ngagarri kalayi ngayi. We stayed behind there, me and mum.

p110	A latywan nginnyingginggu, We had a last look at him,

p111	nguddenggi wul and then we came back,

p112	nime. just us few.

p113	Gagu kinyi kana ngaddi tye Pine Creek mendi We went back to shooting around Pine Creek,

p114	bapurrpurrk nyin pefi ngaddi tye. in the small creeks there.

p115	Gagu dada ewerrmisya minde fekiderri nguddem wul. We kept croc shooting, but not long afterwards we came back again.

p116	A wunu, So we got back there,

p117

a then,

p118	nyine nimbi ngagarri nganninggu wap kana kalayi and me and mum settled down

p119	wakinyi werri. with this fella here.

p120	E ngan yedi ngayi nide And my fella,

p121	kala, kala nem, yedi ngayi and his mum, my mother-in-law,

p122	nyinnin ngannim wap. they were camped there with us.

p123	E ngan wudum batal kinyi peyi deti dede dini tye, And that woman who grew her (Patricia) up,

p124	dini tye peyi deti dede, she was there with us too.

p125	ngan wudupun batal, The woman who raised her,

p126	nyinnin nginni tye. was with us.

p127	Nginni tye pefi, After we'd been there a while,

p128	ngannim, nyinda nimbi pagu nguddem wul kinyi kana Ritytil nide ngaganim wap, nginne nime tye nyin kana. we moved back here to Ridgedale's farm, and we all lived here then.

p129	Ngirrim pefi. And we stayed there.

p130	E wik errike ngini nguddeni wul wundeti Tawun, Every few weeks we'd go back and visit Darwin,

p131	nyinin. like that.

p132	Nyin napa ngayi ngan'gi. So that's my story then!

p133	Tyaminnapa, ngan’gi tyaminnapa, yu. Finished, that’s the end!