:04:03
The agent at Mopu
is an Englishman.
:04:07
He seems a diffîcult man.
:04:09
You Won't get
much help from him.
:04:14
[ Man's Vo/ce ]
Dear Madam, My name /s Dean.
:04:17
I am the agent
of General Toda Ra/ at Mopu...
:04:20
and I am wr/t/ng to you
/n that capac/ty.
:04:23
I understand the general has offered you
the old palace at Mopu...
:04:26
to make a school and
a d/spensary for the nat/ves.
:04:29
It's not the f/rst t/me
he's had such /deas.
:04:32
He's asked me to tell you
about the place and the people.
:04:36
It's not a comfortable spot,
and /t's at the back of beyond.
:04:40
F/rst you have to get
to Darjeel/ng,
:04:42
then I have to f/nd you pon/es
and porters to take you /nto the h/lls.
:04:46
Mopu /s 8,000 feet up.
:04:48
The peaks on the range oppos/te
are nearly as h/gh as Everest.
:04:52
The people call the h/ghest peak
Nanga Dalle.
:04:55
It means ""the bare goddess. ""
:04:59
I l/ve down /n the valley,
out of the w/nd.
:05:01
So does the general,
and so do the people.
:05:04
Mopu Palace stands /n the w/nd
on a shelf on the mounta/n.
:05:08
It was bu/lt by the general's
father, to keep h/s women there.
:05:11
It's called a palace, but there
may be a sl/ght d/fference...
:05:15
between your /dea of a palace
and the general's.
:05:17
Anyhow, there /t /s.
:05:20
The people are l/ke mounta/n peasants
everywhere-- s/mple, /ndependent.
:05:24
They work because they must,
they sm/le when they feel l/ke /t...
:05:27
and they're no respecters
of persons.
:05:31
The men are men-- no better,
no worse than anywhere else.
:05:34
The women are women.
The ch/ldren, ch/ldren.
:05:37
Up on the mounta/n above the
palace, we have our holy man...
:05:40
who s/ts there day /n
and day out /n all weathers.
:05:43
All the people around
are very proud of h/m...
:05:46
and br/ng h/m food
and l/ttle offer/ngs.
:05:49
The w/nd up at the palace
blows seven days a week,
:05:52
so /f you must come,
br/ng some warm th/ngs w/th you.
:05:55
Nobody has l/ved there for
a long t/me, except Angu Ayah...
:05:59
who's always been there
and stays on as caretaker.