Creature from the Black Lagoon Page #2

But what for I need a sweet-smelling boat

to carry fish on this crazy river?

How you like the best cabin,

Miss Lawrence?

- I love it.

- Good.

Well, now we have a lab,

such as it is.

- Well, let's hope we have some use for it.

- I'll be disappointed if we don't.

Assuming that Dr Maia's facts

are well founded.

Dr Maia's a scientist, not a fortune-teller.

How can he guarantee anything?

It seems to me a scientist has need

for both vision and confidence.

I didn't mean it

as any personal criticism, Doctor.

It's just that

I always look forward to success.

And I thought

the Mississippi was something.

It's a winding brook

compared to the Amazon.

This is exactly as it was 150 million years

ago, when it was part of the Devonian era.

- Sounds like the beginning of the world.

- It is.

Even the animals here

grow as they did in Devonian forests.

The anteater is a giant

with the strength of a bear.

The centipede grows to be a foot long.

The Amazonian rat is as big as a sheep.

- That's incredible!

- It's true.

And don't forget our catfish.

They grow to be nine feet long -

and killers.

Like everything in this jungle.

All killers.

Oh, Dr Maia says we're gonna

drop anchor in a couple of hours.

Maybe you'd better get some rest, eh?

Again, Lucas.

We want to make sure

my boys hear us at camp.

When we anchor, we'll take a rowboat.

Luis!

Tomas!

Luis!

Luis! Tomas!

- It's strange they'd be gone.

- Could they have gone hunting?

I gave strict orders for one man

to remain in camp at all times.

- Come on.

- Stay here, Kay.

Wait till we find out what's going on.

Luis!

What could have happened?

I don't understand.

There's only one explanation.

The country is full of wild animals.

I think maybe jaguar.

Jaguar's claws, they rip like this.

Where's Kay?

Kay!

- What happened?

- There's been trouble.

Let's go back on board, Kay.

A world-shaking find, all right.

Eight days, and all we dig up

are enough stones to pave a road.

Had enough, Mark,

or do we keep on digging?

I'll tell you when I've had enough.

We failed.

That's all people will understand.

Carl, have you any idea

what this tributary empties into?

My boys used to tell me

there's a lagoon at the end of it.

What are you getting at?

I was just thinking.

It could be that at some time in the past,

part of this bank broke away

and fell into the river here.

Over hundreds of years, perhaps

thousands, the current would break it up.

If there is a dead end to this tributary,

that's where we'll find the fragments.

We might even find the rest of your fossil.

- It's a theory.

- What's wrong with that?

Even if David's theory is correct, the

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