Paolo Safelini ni omke ala’ama ni e’u ni mie ati li ni e’u. Ponifasio ‘e kuiti ni ‘aka ni o ni puo pam polao ni pi puo.
Paolo Saverini DEF be.in.a.marriage widow DEF live DEF be.one.of son add DEF live Bonifacio own city DEF be.outside DEF be.owned DEF be.at house be.poor DEF be.little DEF be.at
The widow of Paolo Saverini lived alone with her son in a poor little house on the outskirts of Bonifacio.
Fei ni eomu ni puo kuiti ni pmiam, elm unku ni puo i'o telia ni pui, ihu'olo ni okemo apla' pe'e fei timpu Saltinia 'e i'okmami ni misma ni pui ni puo ni o.
mountain DEF exit DEF be.at DEF 3P town DEF build place be.few DEF be.at water be.salted DEF be.over narrows DEF be.seen sand make mountain be.full Sardinia own coastline DEF be.south DEF be.over DEF be.at DEF be.owned
The town, built on an outjutting part of the mountain, in places even overhanging the sea, looks across the straits, full of sandbanks, towards the southernmost coast of Sardinia.
Beneath it, on the other side and almost surrounding it, is a cleft in the cliff like an immense corridor which serves as a harbor, and along it the little Italian and Sardinian fishing boats come by a circuitous route between precipitous cliffs as far as the first houses, and every two weeks the old, wheezy steamer which makes the trip to Ajaccio.