Hey, Man, stop! Wait!
Wait! Stop! We have to re-tie the cords.
We have to get out of here!
He's bleeding. The female is unconscious.
I insist!
Come on, let's go!
Move!
Hello, my little beauty.
The whole world's been looking for you and I found you.
I'm going to call you "America".
You are my America and by God...
I'm your Christopher Columbus.
Leave him!
Let him go!
Don't shoot!
My dear friends...
I can relate great news.
We have two of the savages: A male and a female.
The male has tried to kill me...
and he's the most ferocious fighter, by I've survived.
The other africans recoil from our savages in fear.
They called them "Spirits of the forest"...
and believe they can wreak much evil magic.
- Why you leaving us? - My work here is finished.
But this is your country. You live here.
- My home is across the sea, sir. - Your lord is here. He die here.
That is true and I'll carry his memory in my heart. Always.
Why is it you want with small men?.
- I'll take them to my country. - Why not take me?.
Your wives would miss you too much, sir.
You must take my men. They big men.
I need to take pygmies. I will study them, sir.
For why?.
Because... all men on earth, I believe, come from them.
But you're a white man. These are black.
That is what the Doctor believes if he's right he'll be famous.
What is famous?.
Everybody in the whole world will know who he is.
You want to be a king?. You take one little man...
one little woman to your country and you king also!
- Is this why you go with him?. - No, sir.
So he give you plenty money.
Go to forest, take two little people. Two of my men die.
You pay me!
Shall I have this loaded, Madam?.
They don't belong to me anymore. I'd given them to the King!
I think we should get the birds on the next. Thank you.
We make sail in a few days. Our ship awaits its precious cargo.
The two pygmies are safe and well and I am healing fast.
The prospect of what lies before us fills me with an excitement.
Our dreams are close to being realised.
I don't understand! What is he saying?.
The pygmies would put a curse on you.
They won't survive outside their world.
At least we'll have their bodies to study.
Aren't you gonna tell him what I said?.
Move yourselves!
Don't just lie there! Move your legs!
Move! Get up! Exercise!
Doctor! Leave them alone!
Stand up! Move your arms!
You'd be better talking to the monkeys!
I'd be better off without you.
Come on, eat! Amd you my lovely, you to eat.
Calm down.
Stop now!
Hey, back away! Now!
I've listed the pygmies as a kind of anthropodial monkey.
We don't want to be taken for slave traders.
I don't want to take any risks but you're becoming the risk.
Let Zachary deal with, he knows what is doing.
Thery are my responsibility.
They're my responsibility and I don't want you going down.
I don't take orders! Especially not from you!
Call it a "suggestion". I've made this journey many times.
This is just a business venture for you but for me...
it's probable these creatures existed on earth before man.
At as other species were becoming extinct, they survived.
There could be more at stake than just the origin of man.
We could be talking about the origin of all life!
I won't let a trader in wild animals divert me.
You're forbidden to get down to the hold.
My dear friends, a fever has laid me low.
I suspect malaria so have kept myself away from the pygmies.
I worry for them, in my absence, but I dare not risk contagion.
We pass through ever stormier seas.
Doctor! Come quick!
I see... yes.
I understand.
It's me you wanted.
Well here I am.
My name is Jamie.
We're friends now.
Friends.
Don't!
Back away!
When are you going to learn?. You're who captured them!
They'll never forget. Never!
It's from Jamie. Posted from Lisbon.
The ship docks in a matter of days.
"My friends, there have been serious problems...
difficulties, constraints... I advise caution.
My fever enforces brevity.
We must struggle to... " He doesn't even sign it.
- Look at his handwriting. - He must be very ill.
It's not like him.
As if he deranged.
- Let me stay. - That's impossible, my darling.
- I should be by your side. - Abigail, you promised.
Why?. I'll stay in our bedroom.
- I am not leaving. - Yes you are!
My sweet, dear, very obstinate little sister.
Fraser won't do a stroke of a work if you're here.
We have two months to present our paper to Academy.
A coach will take you to Edinburgh at noon.
You send Jamie on this adventure cause he's got nothing to lose.
You can't treat me like that. I'm staying with my husband!
I'm frightened.
I have a bad feeling.
I always thought your idea was insane.
Our research will be a huge significance to the world.
If only you knew how I prayed that Jamie would fail.
I just keep thinking... What if they're dead?.
Here is our eagle how quite she is a lioness.
Some parrots, the monkeys.
Don't go too close to the apes, they can be vicious.
The Cheetah and the sweet litlle wart hog.
- Very good, madam. - When should I get the document?.
We'll have to go through a regulation.
- The zoo is expecting them. - I do my best.
Now the real work begins. my little fellow.
Don't worry, I'll keeping my distance.
- Jamie! - Alexander! Fraser!
- You look well traveled, Jamie. - That I... certainly am!
My friends, if you had any idea how much I've thought of you.
There were days when I thought I'd never see you again.
Is everything all right?.
They're still alive?.
Thank God they are still alive!
I can't believe it. Are they in good condition?.
Please tell me how I can sell something which I don't own?.
These pygmies belong to King Mateke Seko...
who has given me the concession for the whole of Europe.
I am prepared to place them at your disposal for 3 months.
As if they were for hire?.
The fee for the expedition included delivery of savages.
They belong to us!
No one outside Africa can "own" these pygmies.
This is called slavery.
Do you think we can trust Madame Van den Ende?.
As long as we're all working for our mutual benefit, we can.
Then we are agreed.
I'll have the papers drawn up. I congratulate Dr Dodd.
Without him this expedition would never have succeeded.
Let us through!
I never dreamt I'd live to see this. Incredible.
You're right, Jamie. It is our America.
Our "guests" are savages from the jungles of Africa.
Very dangerous. They are also cannibals.
We don't know what strange diseases they may be carrying.
So keep away and you'll be perfectly safe.
Bring provisions and water to the mill, and we'd distribute.
Mr McBride,Dr Dodd and I, will be the only people they'll see.
No one must know about them till we present them to Academy.
But what about you and the others, sir?.
The pursuit of knowledge entails certain risks.
But don't you worry, we'll be taking every precaution.
- Is everything all right?. - All well sir.
- Did they sleep at all?. - One at time.
- Did you see them fornicate?. - Fornicate?. Why?.
Curiosity. Scientific curiosity.
- Is the female the mate of male?. - Not as far as I'm aware.
I haven't the faintest idea what they are to each other.
They probably think we'll attack them if they both sleep.
Or they're waiting for a chance to attack us.
- What are they doing?. - They're exercising.
Fascinating!
America! Stop!
Stop, America!
Fraser, on you go.
That's it!
Fraser, get out!
Back! America stop!
Open the door! Fraser get to the door! Out!
Breathe! Breathe!
I'm not finished with you... not by a long way.
Heaven breathe!
Something you need me for, Mr Duncan?.
I was worried. We heard shots coming from the mill.
Yes, we did fire some shots. And you know why, Mr Duncan?.
We're studying the degree of emotion our little savages...
might display. It's most instructive. Good day.
Jamie...
Toko...
Come on, there is nothing to lose.
"Thre blind mice, see how they run...
Run after the farmer's wife and cut off the tails with a knife
QA to AB, 83 degrees.
Facial line 9 and one quarter inches.
QA to AB, 62 degrees.
Facial line, 7 and 2/5.
Facial projection, 108.
Cerebral projection, 87...
No it's right. 62 degrees!
The great apes are almost always below 50 degrees.
Negroes, usualy above 70. Mongols between 73 and 77...
and you Jamie, the perfect caucasian at 83.
Which would seem to place our pygmies right in the middle.
Between the most evolved apes and the least developed humans.
You know what this implies?.
How certain are you?.
- Results point in one direction. - We can't afford to be wrong.
I've checked and checked again.
My God!
It looks like the world is gonna have to come to terms with...
the fact that Adam and Eve were a little black man and woman.
They're gonna have to repaint the Sistine Chapel.
When you left them alone they didn't seem troubled in any way?.
No, they weren't "troubled". Wrong vocabulary, my fellow.
That would require intelligence and a capacity for reflection.
Our couple are thousands of years away from all that.
Pull up there!
Who gave you the permission to come in here?.
No one! But I assumed you're not going to turn me away.
If you succeed, then you'll be forgiven...
until then we'll have to ensure we have the proper documents.
I understand.
Toko "Ambaka" for the man. What do you think?.
And do you know the name of the girl?.
You... just invent something.
Wouli Djem. And the age is?.
Say 20 for him 18 for her.
You'd better fill in the rest.
So, our guests are Toko Ambaka and Wouli Djem.
In the province of Oubangui in the territory of King Mateke.
They have come to Scotland at the ivitation or Royal Academy.
I need a letter of confirmation from the Academy.
Consider it done.
I hereby certify that both of the said individuals...
are placed under my authority for a period of three months.
Please sign.
May I see them?.
Madame... would you join me?. It's safe now.
We don't have much time.
Madame, considering you're here, it'd be most helpful...
I don't think any of us should...
I see. What shall I say?. It's very delicate.
- It would seem something of... - Of a violation?.
Very well.
I think you should leave!
She's most definitely a woman.
What are these for?.
Fill this with lead shot and we can tell exactly the volume...
of the cranium. We can measure the size of their brains.
She's waking.
Good, yes, I have it.
Careful.
Be calm.
Hold her!
- What are you doing?. - She sees her own death!
She thinks her soul is being taken from her.
She would have killed herself.
Have you seen them?.
No, but I could hear the most awful cries. Not human cries.
And it wasn't the first time. We got to get them out of here.
They bring evil. They got evil powers.
This is nonesense. What evil have they done to you?.
My child has raging fever, three days now.
My cattle are maddened, they don't sleep at night.
That's the moon... everyone knows that. You can't...
Mr Auchinleck's not the same. He's like a man possessed...
and we should deliver him from his possession!
Go up and get Mr Auchinleck. Douglas, you come with me.
It's an asthma attack. He could die...
Quickly!
Bring me the lamp and hold his head up!
Hold his head!
Bastard!
You give that here, black buggers.
Too late, sir. And so were we.
Clear the way!
Move aside, I say!
Douglas is dead, sir. The savages killed him.
God bless his soul.
Spread out... you go in small groups.
Do not hurt them on any account. I want them alive.
Any man who harms them will answer to me.
- If they're seen as animals... - But if they're human being?.
Then, they are murderers. Our work is over.
- We must find them first. - Follow the trail fast.
Madame, We'll go around the forest.
Come on lads. Let's get these savages!
Are you following?.
I'll be there!
Fine, I have him.
Best leave it to us, Dr Dodd. We know what to do.
Damn you!
The dogs are gone at six. They must be close!
Oh Jesus Christ!
Put your weapons down! Keep back the dogs!
We can take them in charge!
They killed Douglas! The attacked Mr McBride!
It was an accident. It was nobody fault.
It was a terrible accident.
Take them back to the police, sir.
- I will kill him! - Stay there man!
Jamie, stop!
Shut up! Shut up!
You did it.
Did what?.
In the struggle, you had the gun.
It went off by accident. Douglas hit it.
Alexander, what are you saying?.
It was a tragic accident. Manslaughter.
- Are you out of your mind?. - No one will blame you.
But the pygmies have to be innocent.
You want me to confess to a crime I didn't commit?.
Yes! It was your stupidity that landed us here.
I might go to prison.
Not for an accident.
The inquest will be a formality.
Just think, think what's take here.
Please, Fraser, this is our only solution.
We're losing time.
With these we need some more of those. A lot of more.
You two! Go into the fare side.
We're losing time, come on!
You have to surend the campment but be on your guard!
You know what happened to Douglas?.
Move aside! No!
No wait! He's worring of the evil spirit.
- Tell them to lower the weapons. - We're taking no chances.
Watch him men!
What are you doing?. Tie them up!
They have to be in the forest. Otherwise they'll die on us.
This is madness!
After last night they know we're their only protection.
They're not going to run away not with that mob and dogs out.
Take them back to the mill.
And then you can present two fresh little corpses! Do it!
Keep watching men.
Nothing means more to me than our complete success.
Trust me, Alexander.