WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.120 --> 00:00:05.360 Ed up with the everyday grind, tad out from the 2 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:08.679 summer heat, want to get away from it all. 3 00:00:09.240 --> 00:00:17.280 We offer you escape, escape designed to free you from 4 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:19.800 the four walls of today. For a half hour of 5 00:00:20.039 --> 00:00:20.960 high adventure. 6 00:00:24.679 --> 00:00:28.399 You are deep and a fabulous mountain cavern, surrounded by 7 00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:32.679 a horde of menacing natives from the lost civilization, held 8 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:35.840 at the mercy of the most beautiful woman in the world, 9 00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:40.119 the terrible queen called She. 10 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:54.039 Tonight. We escape to uncharted Africa and to an incredible adventure. 11 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:54.240 As h. 12 00:00:54.359 --> 00:00:57.840 Rider Haggard described it in his fantastic story She. 13 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:12.599 In those days, I was a professor of archaeology at Oxford, 14 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:14.480 and now this may account for my being able to 15 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:17.480 understand some of those strange events which occurred later. It 16 00:01:17.599 --> 00:01:21.519 was in no respected reason for my becoming involved in them. No, 17 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:25.480 the real reason was unbelievably simple. I walked through the 18 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:27.840 caves of the dead in the terrible and ancient city 19 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:30.879 of car crossed the awful abyss, and looked upon the 20 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:34.319 flame of life. Only because I was one of the 21 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:38.200 ugliest men in England. Because of my appearances, I had 22 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:42.719 made few acquaintances and only two close friends, Roger Vincey first, 23 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:47.040 and following his death, his son Leo, whom he left behind. 24 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:50.799 And it was that friendship which brought Leo Vincey to 25 00:01:50.840 --> 00:01:53.599 my chambers off the quadrangle late in the evening of 26 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:55.359 the day he became twenty five years old. 27 00:01:56.680 --> 00:01:58.920 Today was the first I knew of it, Holly. When 28 00:01:58.959 --> 00:02:02.079 the attorneys called me in, they said father instructed them 29 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:04.040 the week before he died to give me the letter 30 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:07.040 and this little bronze chest on my twenty fifth birthday. 31 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:12.759 It's strange, I mean chest jan did show Egyptian influence. 32 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:15.000 It must be very old, and according to father's letter 33 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:19.039 it contained something over two thousand years old. Really must 34 00:02:19.039 --> 00:02:22.080 have considered it rather important. He's closed the cover with 35 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:25.759 the lead seal. Yes, I see any rate, Holly, the 36 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:30.199 letter doesn't tell us much. Suppose we suppose we see 37 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:32.280 what's inside? 38 00:02:33.240 --> 00:02:33.680 All right? 39 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:37.199 I have a geology he is I'm where my boy? Hey? 40 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:40.840 Oh here we are? You hold it in place on 41 00:02:40.919 --> 00:02:41.199 the table. 42 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:46.360 Lea, go ahead, Ah, that's putting loose. 43 00:02:46.439 --> 00:02:57.400 Yes, I did it. Well, it goes. What the devil 44 00:02:57.520 --> 00:03:02.639 is that? Why? It's a clean turn old Egyptian writing tabilty. Yes, 45 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:05.560 it's the kind used about the time of Nicktannabes around 46 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:06.719 three forty BC. 47 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:10.080 The writing on that it's not Egyptian, it's Greek. 48 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:14.319 Yes, and parts of it are broken away. Oh, it'll 49 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:16.080 take some time to translate this, Leo. 50 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:20.080 But father apparently did it. Holly, onto this paper. Listen, 51 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:25.039 here's his translation. I am an artist, wife of Khalikrates. 52 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:28.240 Say this to you, my son. Forced to escape the 53 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:31.879 wrath of the great Nectana Bees, your father and I 54 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:35.599 fled southward across the waters and wandered for twice twelve moons, 55 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:37.039 upon the coast of Libya. 56 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:39.639 That's the old name for Africa, you know, ah. 57 00:03:39.719 --> 00:03:42.800 That faces the rising sun. There by the mouth of 58 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:47.199 a river, where stands facing the sea a great mountain 59 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:53.800 carved like the head of an Ethiopian. What is it now? Nothing, Holly? 60 00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:57.479 It goes on following the river. We soon fell among 61 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:00.639 a row of asterisks. 62 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:01.400 One of the places where the tile's broke. 63 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:03.439 And go on my birth to a hollow mountain, where 64 00:04:03.439 --> 00:04:05.879 a great city one stood, into the terrible caves of 65 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:09.199 which no man had seen the end. And to she 66 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:09.960 who must. 67 00:04:09.759 --> 00:04:14.639 Be obeyed, she who must be what's wrong, Leo? 68 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:18.879 I don't know, Holly, there's something familiar about that name, 69 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:24.279 but I've never heard it before. Strange, we get on 70 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:26.839 with it. She who must be obeyed, who did lead 71 00:04:26.920 --> 00:04:29.680 us by awesome ways to the place where the great pities, 72 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:32.480 whose voice is like thunder, and she did show to 73 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:34.720 us the rolling pillar of life, and did stand in 74 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:38.160 the flames, and she spake unto mine is a large 75 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:41.839 fragment missing here. There isn't very much more picks up, 76 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:44.560 carried far away on the ships where I gave birth 77 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:48.319 to thee, and came hither to Athens. At last, so 78 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:51.279 I say to THEE, by these things which I have told, 79 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:55.120 seek out this place, nor state I will until thou 80 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:58.639 hast the secret of life for thyself, sit then on 81 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:03.279 the throne with the Pharaoh. That's all, Holly. And what's 82 00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:05.360 it all about, Leo? 83 00:05:05.879 --> 00:05:08.519 If your father knew, he kept it to himself. I 84 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:10.199 don't know. It's all very strange. 85 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:15.000 Yes, well, we'll know. As soon as we reached the place. 86 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:21.120 I was hoping you'd say that, even if you decided 87 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:23.120 not to, I think I should have ready tried finding 88 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:23.560 it alone. 89 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:26.639 I can't do anything else, Holly. It's it's more than curiosity. 90 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:30.759 It's almost a compulsion. There's such a familiar feeling about 91 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:33.639 all this, even that mountain Holly shaped like the head 92 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:36.800 of an Ethiopian. Yes, well, often on ever since I 93 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:38.800 was a kid, I've dreamed. 94 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:39.480 About a mountain like that. 95 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:42.199 But why, Holly, why should I? 96 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:52.319 That was the beginning, and some three months later be 97 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:55.160 drifted down the east coast of Africa, south of Zante Bar, 98 00:05:55.800 --> 00:05:58.680 searching the miles of jungle shores for the mountain carved 99 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:01.079 like a head. There were four of us in the 100 00:06:01.079 --> 00:06:04.519 tiny ceiling, now Leo and I of course, along with Abdellah, 101 00:06:04.959 --> 00:06:07.839 the Arab boatman we'd had in Arden, and finally a 102 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:11.000 solid North countryman named Joe Nigh servant for many years. 103 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:13.560 We've got no sight of our landmark as yet, but 104 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:15.839 a native were told us of seeing it once years before, 105 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:18.879 somewhere to the south. So our hope's how hi. We 106 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:21.639 were confident luck with with it. I'm sure it was 107 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:23.839 until one evening, just in dark. 108 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:27.879 That's a pretty stiff win, Holly, you think of Tella 109 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:28.519 knows what he's doing. 110 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:30.439 We're rather close in shore all right, Ley, order if 111 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:32.800 there's any danger, and that's a squall, HiT's hey, bye, 112 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:35.480 goll see we're strangers here in an even landon all 113 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:38.399 anything could have it could Joe. But let's assume that 114 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:42.720 it were. How's Thetory making out back? There are trailing 115 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:45.319 along all right behind us. Be in a bad spot 116 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:47.360 if we lost it. We are guns, food, equipment and 117 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:51.959 everything in it. Yes, signed O Joe, Leo. Perhaps we 118 00:06:51.959 --> 00:06:55.199 shouldn't have packed the stuff that way here he should 119 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:56.199 have kept it on board with her. 120 00:06:56.240 --> 00:06:58.600 No, no, Holly, we want to be ready to shove 121 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:00.399 off up the river as soon as we sight the head. 122 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:02.720 Would be a tough job loading that boat at sea. 123 00:07:03.160 --> 00:07:05.199 We may not have had to, Leo. We've certainly found 124 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:06.839 no reason to do so far we will. 125 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:12.079 I've creamnver a master only looks the women driving the 126 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:12.720 water ahead of it. 127 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:15.360 Lay under that tene and head and joy. 128 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:16.600 I'll give my head on it. 129 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:17.639 Hias. 130 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:20.160 Here we've got to Judson hould under the mass job 131 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:21.800 we along down. 132 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:30.079 Here the great wave plunged over us, gore away the 133 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:32.399 dory swamp, the dow beneath off each and hurled us 134 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:33.600 headlong into the foaming sea. 135 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:35.839 Have smothered finding to see. 136 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:38.120 Afloat born show it by the driver of the tempest 137 00:07:38.399 --> 00:07:40.920 we were tossed at last, one by one up onto 138 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:41.800 the rain swift beach. 139 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:51.759 The calm dorm found us huddled together on the sand 140 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:54.600 at the fringe of a dark and forbidding jungle. At 141 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:57.000 the south lay the mouth of a small river into 142 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:59.199 the north. The beach endered at the slope of a 143 00:07:59.279 --> 00:08:02.480 rocky headland. You and Joe went to look at the 144 00:08:02.480 --> 00:08:05.040 rectory lying in the water of the age hundred yards away. 145 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:08.240 When I searched the shoreline for some sign of our boatmen, 146 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:12.519 I found none. And we never saw Abdullah again. 147 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:19.879 Oh, Holly, fin any trace of Molly. 148 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:22.600 No, it is gone for good. 149 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:23.920 Oh it's too bad. 150 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:27.519 We'll change the dory in Jober wrecked, not a chance 151 00:08:27.560 --> 00:08:30.079 of fixing it. But the equipment seems to be all right, sir, 152 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:31.920 Oh good, it's all. 153 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:33.840 There, Yes, most of it. The lashings held in the 154 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:36.480 waterproof case is still up very well. Only trouble is 155 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:37.000 we're afoot. 156 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:39.279 Yes, we're going to have a lot of trouble following 157 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:39.919 the coastline. 158 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:43.399 We won't follow any coastline, Holly, We're going up that river. 159 00:08:44.559 --> 00:08:46.480 Take a look at that headline there to the north. 160 00:08:47.039 --> 00:08:48.559 It shows up better from the wreck Holly. But with 161 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:50.000 the sun coming up now you can see it from 162 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:51.600 here too, Doom. 163 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:53.039 Its shaped like a human nade. 164 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:53.399 That's it. 165 00:08:53.639 --> 00:08:56.879 That's the Lamber, right, Holly, Then that's the river color 166 00:08:56.919 --> 00:08:58.840 Crates followed with his wife, the same one we are 167 00:08:58.879 --> 00:08:59.360 trying to follow. 168 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:01.639 With the boat gone, we shall have to break trail 169 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:03.039 through that jungle and follow. 170 00:09:02.759 --> 00:09:04.679 That river by Yes, we'd better get started. 171 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:07.759 Look, gentlemen, why can't we just stay here and try 172 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:08.840 to signal some ship. 173 00:09:08.919 --> 00:09:10.559 Oh, there's not much chance of a job. Let's stay 174 00:09:10.559 --> 00:09:12.919 pretty clear of this cost. But anyway, this is what 175 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:13.919 we've been looking for. 176 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:16.039 I don't really know what we are looking for, Leo. 177 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:18.960 It's been more than two thousand years since Callakratis went 178 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:21.279 up that river. Things must have changed a great deal 179 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:22.000 by now. 180 00:09:21.799 --> 00:09:24.720 Holly, Hally, that carved head up there in the mountain, 181 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:26.879 it looks exactly the way it always did when I 182 00:09:26.919 --> 00:09:30.279 dreamed about it. I've got a strange feeling that whatever 183 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:32.840 Klikratis and his wife found back there in the jungle, 184 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:35.480 we'll still be waiting there today. 185 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:46.440 Five heart steaming days we pushed inland through the jungle, 186 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:50.639 following the banks of the Muddy River, wre by my. 187 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:54.840 The creeping undergrowth became more dense, the river shallowed and 188 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:58.360 became sluggish, and the swamp lends began to stretch out 189 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:02.679 from the low banks, foul pools and stagnate lagoons full 190 00:10:02.679 --> 00:10:05.519 of soft black mud covered over with the green scum 191 00:10:05.720 --> 00:10:10.080 made every step by hazard. Crocodile slid away at our approach, 192 00:10:10.639 --> 00:10:15.759 and bright colored sneaks ride it out from underfoot. I laughter, My, 193 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:19.440 we forced our way through those evil swamps. Each mile 194 00:10:19.559 --> 00:10:25.840 mod difficult. Finally came the morning of the sixth day. 195 00:10:27.879 --> 00:10:33.120 Oh, I don't know, Holly, it gets any worse. We'll 196 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:34.120 never make it. 197 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:38.879 Excuse me putting in gentlemen, I say we should turn back. No, 198 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:44.240 Joe wears five days getting this far? Have you shaved away? 199 00:10:44.559 --> 00:10:48.240 It's just the way I feel. We'll keep on as 200 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:52.320 long as we care. What lilts? Hello, and I stumble 201 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:56.759 over something in the mire. Yeh, take a look at it. 202 00:10:56.759 --> 00:10:57.440 It's a rock. 203 00:10:57.960 --> 00:11:03.960 Look, yes, it's a square stone. It's been hand cut. 204 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:06.120 There's another. 205 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:08.440 It's a section of an old wall of some sort 206 00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:09.000 of a dike. 207 00:11:09.799 --> 00:11:10.480 That's it, Holly. 208 00:11:11.159 --> 00:11:13.240 A long time ago the river was held between stone 209 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:15.039 dikes along here like a. 210 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:17.519 Sort of canals possible. That might account for the swampland 211 00:11:17.559 --> 00:11:19.960 the dikes gradually fell to pieces, and the river sped 212 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:20.679 out through the jungle. 213 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:23.159 Of course, and Holly, that could be only one reason 214 00:11:23.159 --> 00:11:26.039 for building them, so that boats are parts could come 215 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:28.480 in from the ocean to some kind of a city city. 216 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:31.799 Gentlemen, don't we turn back while we're st city. It 217 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:34.480 had to be a long time ago, centuries ago. 218 00:11:34.360 --> 00:11:37.759 It'd still be there, Holly, this place has never been explored. 219 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:40.480 Nobody would ever try to come through these swamps. 220 00:11:40.480 --> 00:11:43.279 If he keeps, Joe, what's the matter with you? He 221 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:50.840 must be Oh, look, natives, Ah, where the devil did 222 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:51.679 they come from? 223 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:58.799 I don't know. Oh strange looking roots clothes they're wearing. 224 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:06.240 Yes, you needn't quite like them, except hey, hey, bakery beco. 225 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:09.480 Do you recognize the dialect? 226 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:14.159 No, it's a little like Arabic. I might try that. Okay, 227 00:12:14.200 --> 00:12:18.720 you far, hey, go need balk on ye vic. I've 228 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:20.159 never heard anything like it before. 229 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:24.679 Seemed to watas to come along with them. Molly, you 230 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:25.639 think we'd better change it? 231 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:29.080 Well? The outnumbers third it at one leo. 232 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:31.960 Yes, and they're all carrying those stabbing knives. 233 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:35.279 Well, barker the dongle. 234 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:37.279 Hang on to your guns. They don't seem to know 235 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:39.639 what they're for. Let's go. 236 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:48.759 Our strangers got moved rapidly ahead, twisting and turning as 237 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:51.720 they followed some well remembered trail of their own. We 238 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:54.279 rested during the night on a hummock of dry ground, 239 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:57.960 and struck out again at dawn. It was late afternoon 240 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:00.240 when we left the swamp and climbed up at long 241 00:13:00.279 --> 00:13:03.679 slope to the foot of the rock walled mountain. Reaching 242 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:05.639 its base, we entered the mouth of a great cabin, 243 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:08.399 and a short way inside were led into a small 244 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:11.679 tide chamber carved from the living rock and lighted by 245 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:14.240 a red wick floating in the jug of air. And 246 00:13:14.279 --> 00:13:16.639 then the strange natives went away and left us, and 247 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:19.039 we set about on the floor trying to plan some 248 00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:19.600 course of action. 249 00:13:25.279 --> 00:13:32.000 Em out, Ah, how long do you suppose we've been here, Harley? 250 00:13:32.559 --> 00:13:34.960 Close to two hours? I'd say, yeah, I must be 251 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:37.480 dark outside by now. Alla. 252 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:39.480 Do you have any idea what race they belonged to. 253 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:42.559 They're not like any other natives in this part of Africa. 254 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:44.240 I've seen people much like them in summer of the 255 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:46.559 villages in southern Egypt, Leo. But I don't know any 256 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:48.279 more about it than that where. 257 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:51.559 Those odd tunics to cotton or Linen. I suppose those 258 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:55.320 bronze headbands must have been out of contact with the 259 00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:57.039 rest of the world for centuries. 260 00:13:57.320 --> 00:13:58.759 Eavens, that's what they are. 261 00:13:58.799 --> 00:14:01.279 And hope to you know good so far as we concerned. 262 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:03.039 That's what I write, Joe, But I still want to 263 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:04.960 find out about the other things. Em Nazis wrote on 264 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:07.440 the tile Steve Corn the pillar of fire, and she 265 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:08.480 who must be obeyed. 266 00:14:08.799 --> 00:14:11.519 We found the caves. At least I can't see anything 267 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:12.440 so terrible about them. 268 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:17.080 Perhaps we haven't seen everything in the cave. Yee bohop 269 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:23.240 o any bar hop our little charm any barop. He 270 00:14:23.279 --> 00:14:26.559 seems to want us to follow it. Well, hang on 271 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:27.360 to your gun, right, you. 272 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:29.519 Are stick close together, Do not let them separate us, 273 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:30.440 all right. 274 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:39.120 Job, Come, let's go. A strange guide led us along 275 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:41.960 the twisting, branching passageways, latting our way with a flaming 276 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:44.440 torch that threw weird shadows on the walls of solid rock. 277 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:47.360 Now and then we pass high chambers lined with long 278 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:51.080 rows of stone slabs, and then I saw that each 279 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:54.559 slab held the sheeted figure of a human body, and 280 00:14:54.639 --> 00:14:57.879 I realized these caves were one vast crypt filled with 281 00:14:57.919 --> 00:15:03.240 the mammified bodies of some Gradually, as we moved on, 282 00:15:03.559 --> 00:15:06.440 a most remarkable sound began to grow louder, made up 283 00:15:06.480 --> 00:15:08.919 of the guttural voices of a crowd, the throbbing of drums, 284 00:15:08.919 --> 00:15:12.600 and the moan of some strange musical instrument. Suddenly, the 285 00:15:12.679 --> 00:15:15.039 narrow passage opened out into a great hollowed cavern, where 286 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:17.440 with natives danced and postured, and the irig glare from 287 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:20.840 one hundred huge torches placed about the walls. They still 288 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:26.159 in amazement, but the torches were flaming mummies tied upright 289 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:29.960 to the posts, and the guide had lighted our way 290 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:34.360 through the passages with a human arm. 291 00:15:34.919 --> 00:15:40.080 Nay, book or again, I think he means for us 292 00:15:40.120 --> 00:15:42.200 to walk toward that platform in the center. 293 00:15:42.559 --> 00:15:45.360 Yes, there's a bit of cold bending on the top 294 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:45.559 of it. 295 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:49.159 Eh, book has come on, watch it, Holly. I don't 296 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:51.600 like the looks of this. I keep your gun handed, Leo, 297 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:54.480 stay right with this joke and look anything but friendly. 298 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:56.399 Anything starts trying to get on the platform. They've got 299 00:15:56.440 --> 00:16:01.960 no weapons except those stepping nows. Remember here we are 300 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:07.840 on now what the band eve? It's quite some fire 301 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:11.120 they've got built up. I can't understand what they want. 302 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:12.399 Joe, Joe, Joe. 303 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:14.919 But how Holley they kill Joe endeavors back against them Orleo, 304 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:19.039 watch it here they come? All right, you step Joe 305 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:22.440 a chance? What are you left, Holley? Let's try for 306 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:25.200 the frame have naughty man? 307 00:16:28.639 --> 00:16:29.399 What the deuce is this. 308 00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:32.240 Old man in a long white row? 309 00:16:32.320 --> 00:16:34.039 Hold your gun ready, Leo, we'll see what happens. 310 00:16:34.440 --> 00:16:35.639 Andy Andibo. 311 00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:42.279 Let's get the death of him, whoever he is. 312 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:43.559 Wait, he's coming our way. 313 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:54.120 I presume you speaking English, gentlemen, Yes you do. Occasionally 314 00:16:54.399 --> 00:16:57.279 natives from the south have come through the swamps and 315 00:16:57.480 --> 00:17:00.519 we have captured him. I have learned many of the 316 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:02.360 languages of the outside world. 317 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:09.000 I am b lally Ah, Leo, Vincey, and this is 318 00:17:09.200 --> 00:17:09.759 mister Holly. 319 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:13.920 I am most sorrowful for the death of your companion. Yes, 320 00:17:14.920 --> 00:17:16.920 my children had no excuse. 321 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:18.759 They know the law. 322 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:22.559 From now on you will be allowed to complete freedom. 323 00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:26.319 No white man is ever to be eaten Eden. 324 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:27.880 That is what would have. 325 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:28.559 Been done to you. 326 00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:33.839 But rest assured her law is just, and their punishment 327 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:39.039 will be swift. Whose law that of she who must 328 00:17:39.079 --> 00:17:39.640 be obeyed? 329 00:17:40.039 --> 00:17:41.480 Ali? This is it? 330 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:42.839 Only we're still on the right trail. 331 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:46.759 She has demanded your presence. I have come to take 332 00:17:46.839 --> 00:17:49.279 you to the place where she is. 333 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:53.119 Tell me, Blali, who what is this she who must 334 00:17:53.119 --> 00:17:56.240 be obeyed? A goddess, a queen, a white woman? 335 00:17:56.880 --> 00:18:01.160 I could not say, my son, I have never seen 336 00:18:01.480 --> 00:18:03.880 she come along. 337 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:14.640 Again through those tortuous passages, two of us now, with 338 00:18:14.880 --> 00:18:18.599 kindly old Bilalay leading the way, until he left us 339 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:20.920 alone at last in a large chamber hung with brilliant 340 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:24.839 colored silks, fitted with softer vands, and lighted by crystal lamps. 341 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:31.880 We stood there several minutes, not speaking, wondering, when suddenly 342 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:35.680 the curtains across the doorway parted, and her most amazing 343 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:39.319 figure stood before us. It was swathed in folds of 344 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:44.759 filmy white draperies, with soft gauzy veils covering even the 345 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:45.680 face and hands. 346 00:18:49.559 --> 00:18:52.880 I bid you welcome to the city of Koor. Colocrates 347 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:54.400 and friend of Calocrates. 348 00:18:55.240 --> 00:18:59.759 I I I am not Colocrates. I'm Leo Vincey, and 349 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:01.559 and this is my friend, mister Holly. 350 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:08.039 Leo vincey vengeance. No matter you will understand? Are you 351 00:19:08.519 --> 00:19:09.519 I am she? 352 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:13.400 We you must forgive, as if we find it difficult 353 00:19:13.440 --> 00:19:17.079 to understand this? What is all they see? These caves? 354 00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:19.680 The natives? What is Kor? 355 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:22.559 Kor is a great city that rose up and then 356 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:26.440 died many thousand years ago. These are the caves of Kor. 357 00:19:26.920 --> 00:19:29.920 The city itself stands farther on, and a huge crater 358 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:30.960 at the heart of the mountain. 359 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:34.079 Are you a descendant of Kor? 360 00:19:34.759 --> 00:19:38.079 I came from another place far away, and Kor was 361 00:19:38.160 --> 00:19:41.400 dead long before I found it. The natives know me 362 00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:44.480 as a fearsome figure in white, and they obey me. 363 00:19:44.759 --> 00:19:46.039 They have never seen you. 364 00:19:46.599 --> 00:19:49.920 No, Holley, not one of them has ever seen behind 365 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:50.640 these vales. 366 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:53.599 It's amazing to think that color Crates must have been 367 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:57.519 here in this same place over two thousand years ago. 368 00:19:57.599 --> 00:20:02.400 Two thousand, two hundred eighty seven years ago, Calocrates died 369 00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:03.440 in this very chamber. 370 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:06.359 You you speak as though you saw it happened. 371 00:20:06.799 --> 00:20:09.799 I did see it happen. I killed him, but. 372 00:20:11.839 --> 00:20:12.359 You couldn't. 373 00:20:13.680 --> 00:20:16.279 That was over two thousand years ago. 374 00:20:16.599 --> 00:20:19.119 Yes, and at that time I had been here in 375 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:20.359 cores for more than five. 376 00:20:20.319 --> 00:20:22.119 Hundred years impossible. 377 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:24.960 How do you know you haven't seen me? 378 00:20:25.119 --> 00:20:27.759 But then you claim to be immortal. 379 00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:30.720 Yes, as he could have been had he stepped with 380 00:20:30.880 --> 00:20:34.039 me into the flames of life, as you can be, 381 00:20:34.200 --> 00:20:35.039 my Calicrates. 382 00:20:35.759 --> 00:20:39.160 If you so true, I hope you'll forgive me. But 383 00:20:39.279 --> 00:20:41.799 I can't believe anything so fantastic. 384 00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:42.680 Is it proof? 385 00:20:42.799 --> 00:20:43.200 You need? 386 00:20:43.680 --> 00:20:45.799 Proof that I once did an evil act in anger 387 00:20:46.559 --> 00:20:49.279 and paid for it by waiting alone through all these centuries, 388 00:20:50.200 --> 00:20:54.079 proof that my waiting has ended. Now, then look upon 389 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:55.200 it behind this curtain. 390 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:02.599 A mummy, a mummy like those out in the caves. 391 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:08.440 But look at the face, Leo, Ah, it's you. That's 392 00:21:08.519 --> 00:21:09.559 you lying there. 393 00:21:10.200 --> 00:21:13.240 That is the body of Calacrates, whom I loved and 394 00:21:13.359 --> 00:21:16.480 whom I killed in anger. When he refused to leave 395 00:21:16.559 --> 00:21:21.200 her and stay with me to become immortal, his wife, Eminaritis, 396 00:21:21.240 --> 00:21:23.680 fled across the mountains and later gave birth to his son, 397 00:21:24.200 --> 00:21:25.640 Your ancestor. 398 00:21:25.319 --> 00:21:28.480 And Lio, that clay tile has been handed down in 399 00:21:28.559 --> 00:21:30.960 your family for over twenty centuries. 400 00:21:31.440 --> 00:21:33.880 I have paid for my sin, and I have waited, 401 00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:36.880