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8-calibre. Pistol grip to stock.
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Nitro-express cartridge,
firing a charge of 12 drams.
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- It'll knock down a charging bull elephant.
- There are no elephants in Brazil.
:14:14
I know. But it doesn't hurt to be prepared.
:14:18
Tell me, Mr Malone.
:14:20
Have you ever been close enough to a really
dangerous wild animal to stare into its eyes?
:14:27
I assume not. Shall I tell you
what you see there? Your own death.
:14:31
An uncomfortable experience.
:14:34
On the contrary, it's profoundly stimulating.
You might want to get that down.
:14:41
Gentlemen. If you please.
:14:46
- Time to reveal our destination.
- Why did you have to be so secretive?
:14:50
- He didn't trust us to keep our mouths shut.
- Yes.
:14:54
Mr Malone has kindly agreed to keep
an accurate record of our progress.
:14:59
Now... this is roughly
where I shot the pterosaur.
:15:04
It's right on the edge
of the unexplored regions.
:15:07
When I got back, I found this account
of a Portuguese expedition
:15:12
that went to the same region in 1649.
:15:15
Only one man returned,
Father Luis Mendoz.
:15:19
When they found him in the jungle,
it was assumed he was mad.
:15:23
So we're going to be following a map
drawn up by a lunatic!
:15:27
- He was raving about dragons.
- Dinosaurs.
:15:30
Exactly.
:15:31
Now, according to Luis Mendoz,
:15:35
there's a remote plateau
in the middle of the unmapped territory.
:15:39
He says there's a cave system
leading right the way up to the summit.
:15:44
- His claim makes perfect sense.
- Why?
:15:48
For a pterosaur or any other
prehistoric creature to have survived,
:15:53
it must have been isolated from
the mainstream of evolutionary development.
:15:57
Where do you propose we start
our search for this mythical plateau?