The Land That Time Forgot Page #4

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... no easy task

to survive around here.

Making it

through the day without becoming

someone's lunch is like...

...ah...having a date

with the Andrews Sisters,

you know what I mean?

[ LAUGHING ]

That's a good one!

We don't get

too many feminine types

around here.

There was one...

...showed up

about the time I got here but...

...she didn't last long.

You must

be the group that came in

on the boat, right?

- The boat?

- You've seen the boat?

Yeah, a boat's

kinda like an Easter Egg at an orphanage

around here.

Where?

It's a little sticky.

I don't care how 'sticky' it is,

my wife's on that boat;

I need to find it now.

Just gettin'

to that boat is going to take

everything you can muster.

I'll lead you right to it,

can't promise

it's still there, though.

Can you go back?

That's a whole 'nother ball game.

Mind if I have

another one of those?

Let's go.

You know?

It's called 'survival of the fittest.'

I can't believe

you guys didn't bring any

firepower at all.

You show-up with knives?

We weren't--

We weren't fighting a war.

You can say that again!

This is where

I dropped into our little

island paradise.

Broke an arm in the process.

Hung up there

like a Christmas ornament

before anyone found me.

That's where I met Joe.

[ JUNGLE BIRD CALLING ]

Everything in here

we collected from somewhere

on the island.

Kind of...

a little museum we

put together.

Sh*t!

Oh, this is Conrad.

Conrad...everybody.

Hi!

- When are you from?

- What? I'm from Manhattan.

- What year?

- Yeah! I thought he was crazy too.

He may be, and me with him.

Conrad was skipper on a vessel called the "Connemora"

You were on board the Connemora?

Damn fine vessel.

Ah, she was recovered in 1955.

He's been here for 54 years?

10 years, 311 days.

Hey, hey, smell that?

Smell that?

- Is that petrol?

- Bubbles-up right out of the ground.

Conrad knows this place

better than I ever will.

You'll guide us across?

Great. How far are

we going to get with some

crazy old man?

Hey, hey, hey...

may not be as crazy

as you think.

So Jude, where'd you

get the row boat?

Just like everything else,

washed-up on the beach.

Don't know what happened

to the people in it.

You know, if you got

a boat, why don't you just use it

to leave the island?

Making it past

the breakers in something that small

is impossible.

Believe me, I tried,

I almost became a snack

for those big

sons-a-b*tches that live

out in the deep.

Well, wait a minute,

what, what?

There she is.

There is something

that bothers me.

What kind of plane

was it that you said you

bailed out of?

TBM Avenger,

Flight 19.

Did you know that

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