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当黎明的第一道曙光照在兰巴塔岛上时,渔民们开始巡视南太平洋的海面,寻找能提供鲸鱼行踪的水波纹。他们有时在灼人的烈日下等上好几个小时,却连一头鲸也见不到。饥饿感比捕猎本身重要得多,对于这些渔民和翘首盼望他们的村民来说,猎鲸不是为了娱乐,而是为了生存。如果他们的家园拉马莱拉村的土地富饶一点的话,他们猎捕鲸鱼的传统也许早就不存在了。但是,他们居住的兰巴塔岛是个火山岛,而且非常干燥,它的海岸线寸草不生。既然土地不能提供他们生存所需的资料,海洋就必须担负起这个任务了。拉马莱拉是印度尼西亚东部最后一个捕鲸的村庄,因为他们捕鲸是为了生存而不是赢利,因此
As dawn’s first light shone on Lambat Island, fishermen began patrolling the waters of the South Pacific looking for water ripples that provided the whereabouts of whales. Sometimes they wait for hours on scorching sunsets, but they can not even see a whale. Hunger is much more important than hunting itself, and for these fishermen and those villagers who are eagerly looking forward to them, hunting is not for pleasure but for survival. If the land in their home village, Lamaira, is rich, their hunt for whales may not exist anymore. However, they live in Lombarda is a volcanic island, and very dry, its coastline is not born. Since land can not provide the information they need to survive, the oceans must take up this task. Ramalla is the last whaling village in eastern Indonesia because they are whaling for survival rather than for profit and therefore