King Solomon's Mines Page #4

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to evaporate, or you won't last two hours...

...and you're sealed up like a tin of pears.

Khiva, get that box!

This may be the costume

for shooting pheasant in Sussex...

...but it won't do here. Go behind the

bushes change. Take off those corsets.

Impertinent, wretched man.

To think I would just... Terrible.

Unbearable behavior. Really.

- That's a very becoming outfit, Beth.

- I hate it!

If you'll keep absolutely still...

Don't shoot. Stand still.

That was a close call.

Not really. They're not dangerous

unless hungry.

How do you know

when they're hungry?

- Well, if they eat you, they're hungry.

- Seriously, how did you know?

Look.

Why didn't you shoot?

- Why, you want a trophy?

- It might have killed us.

Well, if it had tried, I'd have shot it.

Otherwise, there's not much point.

I didn't tell you to run!

A man's heart

can stand still, so can you.

- How far have we gone?

- Well, we started here.

Now we're somewhere about here.

That took us seven days?

We have to head

for the Kaluana Village there.

Curtis' map starts where

the large map ends, at the village.

That in itself is a long trip.

We know where the Kaluana

tribe is but little else...

...except that they're said

to be dangerous.

- You've never been among them?

- I'm not an explorer.

In fact, to my knowledge, no white man

has been near the Kaluanas for five years.

They're feared as much by natives

as they are by whites.

We'll have trouble getting

our boys that far.

- We can't be sure that Henry got that far.

- No.

We'll inquire of other tribes, of course,

but we've got to go to the Kaluana.

It is the only place we know

Curtis was trying to reach.

- How long will it take?

- Weeks. Months, perhaps.

I don't know. I've never taken a woman

on safari with me before.

Have I been a handicap?

Why, no, Mrs. Curtis,

but the fun hasn't started yet.

When it does, I'm sure we'll all enjoy it.

What do they sing about?

Oh, all sorts of things.

About their work. The money

they're gonna earn on this job.

About wives and sweethearts, everything

they're gonna do when they get home.

What are they singing about now?

Now they're singing about Mrs. Curtis.

They call her:

That means "the lady

with the flaming hair."

What else?

They say you're very fortunate

because Bwana Allani...

...will protect you from lions, leopards,

elephants, all the terrors of the jungle.

What are they saying now?

Well, they say that I'm

very fortunate too.

I'm sorry. I couldn't help it.

It was one of those...

It was a dream again.

I'm sorry, truly I am.

- Where are they going?

- They're going back.

I wondered how we

were gonna get over that.

From now on, we do without luxuries.

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