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surgu-saarey, saa di kaa i too kaa i honno surgu di yo,
Tuareg-cemetery, time Def Rel 3PISamrive when 3PIS espy  Tuareg Def PI,
Tuareg-cemetery (place). When they had arrived, when they espied the Tuaregs,
(surgu-saarey, name of a place near Toya in the province of Timbuktu)
surgu di yo hisa ka bow, saa di kaa i kaa
Tuareg Def Pl do-much Inf be-much, time Def Rel 3PIS come
the Tuaregs became very numerous. When they (=Tuaregs) came,

i Sinti, I Jow I yenje, mais a Jow

3PIS begin, 3PIS take 3PIS-Impf fight, but 35gS take

they began, they launched into battle. But he (=Amadou) launched

a-a yenje surgu di yo hal surgu di yo kul ben,
3SgS-Impf fight Tuareg Def Pl until Tuareg Def Pl all finish,
into fighting the Tuaregs until all of the Tuaregs were wiped out.

boro  joggu hinja nda waranja Cindi hinja boro di kaa
person hundred three and thirty remainder three person Def Rel
Three hundred thirty men, the man (=men) who

(boro di here singular in form, but denoting a collectivity, cf. 3Pl below)
goo, a banda, a har i se kaa | ma yee,

be  3Sg behind, 3SgS say 3Pl Dat that 3PIS Subju return,
were with him (=Amadou), he told them to go back,

i ma koy har seeku se kaa a ma  samba-kata
3PIS Subju go say Sékou Dat that 3SgS Subju send-Centrip
and to go ask Sékou to send here

ngu se boro ngu ta ngu 0 hima ka bun
LogoSg Dat person LogoSg Top LogoSgS Impf ought Inf die

some people (=reinforcements) to him; as for himself, he was destined to die
aljumaa di  alaasara, saa di kaa boro di yo—,
Friday Def aftermoon-prayer, time Def Rel person Def Pl—,

on Friday at the late-afternoon prayer. When the people—,

i sarre i koy, a kar alwalaa, a Jingar,

3PIS set-off 3PIS go, 3SgS hit ablution, 3SgS pray,

(when) they had departed and gone, he (=Amadou) did the ablutions and prayed.
a har ngu wane maabe di se a ma koy kate
3SgS say 3ReflSgPoss griot Def Dat 3SgS Subju go bring
He (=Amadou) told his griot to go fetch