In Search of the Castaways Page #4

to roost in a tree

like a confounded sparrow.

Pitch my tent just here.

[Horse whinnies]

[Horses whinny]

[Rumbling]

You, in tree! Listen!

Flood come! Much water!

You stay in tree. I bring help.

- My father?

- I'll wake him.

To be safe, we tie our things

so they do not fall.

[Rumbling]

Flood come.

You go quick to tree.

I ride for help.

Not even raining.

[Shouting]

[Whooping]

- Yah!

- [Whinnies]

[Paganel]

Make ready for the storm.

Look, the floods.

Father! Father!

John, be careful!

- Father! Hurry up!

- Now what's going on?

- Come with me.

- Can't I get a decent night's rest?

[Both yelling]

Come on!

They've got it.

Hold on!

Highly irregular. Flood like

this and not even raining.

[Birds chirping]

[Paganel whistling]

[Sneezes]

- [Sneezes]

- [Paganel] With food in your stomach,

the world will feel

a lot brighter. [chuckles]

Oh! Look out below!

Oh!

Sorry, milord.

(music) Why cry about bad weather

(music) Enjoy it

(music) Each moment is a treasure

(music) Enjoy it

(music) We're travelers

on life's highway

(music) Enjoy the trip

(music) Each lovely twist and byway

- (music) Each bump and twist

- [sneezes]

(music) if there's a complication

(music) Enjoy it

(music) You've got imagination

(music) Employ it

(music) When you see roses

in the snow

(music) Joi de vivre

will make them grow

(music) Voila, that's life

(music) Enjoy it

(music) Since I must do the cooking

(music) Ill enjoy it

(music) This ombu tree

smells gorgeous

(music) You'll enjoy it

(music) A hurricane comes your way

(music) Enjoy the breeze

(music) You're stranded

in the jungle

(music) Ha!

Enjoy the trees

(music) if there's a complication

(music) Enjoy it

(music) You've got imagination

(music) Employ it

(music) This tree's a cornucopia

(music) Why, it could be...

Utopia!

Voila!

(music) That's right

Enjoy it

(music) Why cry about bad weather

- (music) Enjoy it

- No, enjoy!

(music) Oh, each moment

is a treasure

- (music) Enjoy it

- Better. Enjoy it.

(music) We're travelers

on life's highway

(music) Enjoy the trip

(music) Each lovely twist

and byway

- (music) Each bump and dip

- Good.

(music) if there's a complication

(music) Enjoy it

(music) Enjoy it

(music) You've got imagination

- (music) Employ it

- [Paganel] (music) Employ it

(music) From eggs and herbs

Au natural

(music) Omelette ombu a la Paganel

(music) Pour vous, milord

Enjoy it (music)

[Sniffing]

Voila!

[Quacking]

[Glenarvan] Robert!

Can you see anything that looks

like an Indian on horseback?

- Coming to our rescue?

- Only some birds.

Only some... [sneezes]

Only gone down half an inch

in two days.

We'll be here for ten years

at this rate.

Ha-ha! Cheer up, milord.

We pay no rent.

Mother Nature sets

the table for us,

and, fortunately,

we have plenty of water.

[Chuckles] That's very

fortunate, I must...

[sneezes]

Very fortunate.

My father will never trust

another Indian.

But Thalcave's different.

He said, "I bring help."

And he will.

- If he got through.

- Don't even think such things.

All right.

But if I may paraphrase

what a wise girl

once said to me

many years ago,

"If you were marooned

in an ombu tree,

and you had logs

and something to tie them with,

you wouldn't just sit there

till you died or something, would you?"

That's very good.

For a girl, I mean.

[Sighs] I suppose most girls are

taught embroidery and things,

but Mother died after Robert was born,

and Father being a sea captain...

When we first met,

I had a different impression.

Most girls

can be rather silly.

Do you know what I mean?

- No, I don't.

- Well...

- You're different.

- How different?

I don't know how to say it.

I had it all worked out

last night.

Sounds rather silly now, though.

What does?

Well, you don't

expect things of a girl.

Certain things like climbing mountains

and going through floods.

Making the most of it.

You know what I mean?

Don't think I do.

Well, I want to say that...

...I think you've

been just fine.

For a girl.

What I really mean

is that...

...if we get

out of here alive,

and when we're old enough...

- John.

- Mary.

There's the log you've needed

for your raft.

[John] That's it.

Just what we need.

Perfect.

[John] Got it.

- Oh!

- Keep out of the way!

[Growling]

- It's a tiger.

- No, no, it's a jaguar. Felix onca.

Get that beast out of here.

[Paganel] It's probably

as frightened of us as we are of it.

- Just a big cat, milord.

- Get rid of it. Get rid of it.

Can't stand cats

at the best of times.

Confounded things

always make me sneeze.

- [Growling]

- Go on! Get out of here!

[Roars]

[John] Go on! Get out of here.

Don't, John.

The poor thing.

[Bird screeching]

[Whispering] Do not move.

Not an eyelash.

[Starting to sneeze]

[Growling]

[Sniffing]

[Stifling sneeze]

[Growling]

[Loud sneeze]

[Glenarvan sneezing]

[Rumbling]

[Sneezing]

[Glenarvan] "Marooned in ombu tree.

Latitude 37 degrees south,

longitude 66 degrees west.

Send help. Immediately."

[Paganel] One, two,

three, four,

five, six,

- seven...

- [thunder]

More than two kilometers away.

My father always told me,

never go near a tree in a thunderstorm.

[Paganel] One, two,

three, four,

- five...

- [thunder]

I think it's getting closer.

Yes. At 35 degrees centigrade

sound travels at approximately

- one...

- [explosion]

[Glenarvan] Good heavens,

the tree's on fire!

We'll put it out.

[Growling]

No time for that sort of thing.

Get out of the way!

You see? It's too late now.

Abandon the ombu tree, milord.

It has a remarkably

low flashpoint.

[John] Onto the raft!

Our only chance.

- Look out!

- [Growling]

Oh, no!

- I'll get it.

- No, don't.

Apparently we have our choice: Eaten raw

down there or roasted alive up here.

Hold on, everybody!

Mother Nature comes

to our rescue.

A water spout!

[Glenarvan] Ahoy!

Ahoy!

Hmm. We're still several degrees

off course, you know.

Hurry up with the canvas.

There's a breeze coming up.

Aye, aye, captain.

You're strangely quiet,

aren't you?

Sorry, milord.

I was thinking.

I don't know which is worse.

You so happy

you sing all the time,

or so glum you won't even talk.

"Ze ombu tree is gorgeous.

Enjoy it." Ha!

I am stupid. Stupid!

Stupid!

I know, but that hasn't

worried you till now.

It is better they do not hear.

What are you talking about?

It is something I remembered

in the night.

How could I be so stupid,

I don't know, but the shark.

[Shouting in distance]

- It was a mako shark...

- Ahoy!

As well as I know anything,

I should know

that the mako shark

lives only in...

Be quiet.

- [Shouting in distance]

- Ahoy there!

Ahoy!

Ahoy there!

- [Shouting in distance]

- I think I see it. There.

A canoe!

Ahoy there. Ahoy...

It's an Indian war canoe. This is

a fine fix. We're completely unarmed.

It's Thalcave!

He did come back!

Thal... Ho-ho, Thalcave, my good man.

Delighted to see you.

- [Thalcave] I bring news.

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