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- That's quite an arsenal.
- It is for hunting.
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Won't hunt here. The coast
is closed. Hostile tribes.
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- On leave from the Indian Army, Sir.
- Lieutenant Speke ...
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- John Hanning Speke.
- I know the name.
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Your father was the High Sheriff of Somerset?
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There is a party going inland as some kind
of survey of the Royal Geographical Society.
But it is out of my jurisdiction.
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- Would you introduce me to its leader?
- Wouldn't think of it.
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Captain Richard Burton,
travel writer. Man's a fool.
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- I'm looking for Captain Burton.
- He's in the mosque.
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He can be anywhere among this bunch.
Tends to mingle ...
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Please, wait ... I was told Captain Burton
might be here.
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So lieutenant, you left home
at 17 and never returned.
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Why?
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My oldest brother administers the
family property..
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If we find gold inland
you will have property yourself.
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- Is that why you go?
- The captain is interested by tribal practices.
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Take these lasses here.
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For centuries, Somali women have been circumcised.
The men believe it keeps their wives at home
where they belong.
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Burton has single-handedly
disproved that theory.
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And of course there's the Nile.
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All have guessed:
Ptolemy, Caesar, Napoleon.
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The greatest river in the world.
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- Will it dry up?
- Where does it begin?
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Every Westerner's curiosity has been met
with torture, mutilation and death.
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The river is shrouded in mystery.
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Who will be the first
to discover its source?
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Which of our goals
do you favour, Speke?
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To march inland,
you'll need help.
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I brought many guns.
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April 21st.
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Native legend says that the Nile's source lies deep in the interior.
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They call the place
the Mountains of the Moon.
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It is ironic that while I choose
to explore the unknown
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I must bear the personal responsibility for the exploitation that might follow.
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For those who would control the river, and thus all the nations that depend upon its waters.
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We move inland tomorrow. Our funds and provisions remain meagre.
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But I have taken on a subordinate, an English Lieutenant Speke, who brings with him more guns and ammunition.
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Look.
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A tawny eagle.
It's a fine specimen, don't you think?
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This is not an expedition for sport.
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More.
Put on more wood.
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What's the matter?
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Some strange tribesmen followed me
as I walked back to camp.
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- What did they look like?
- I couldn't see clearly.
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Did they carry lances?
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- Were their faces painted?
- They kept their distance.
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Understand, Lieutenant, that close
observation is not only a part of your duty.
In Africa it means survival.
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I don't look particularly threatening.
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You look what you are:
A white and an intruder.
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Enough.
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Keep two more sentries tonight.
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I've heard that the tribes in this area
castrate their victims.
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That's a pleasant thought.
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- Lieutenant?
- Yes?
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May I come in?
How are your feet?
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Splendidly callused.
I assure you I am quite ready.
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I thought you might want this.
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Acacia root.
Good for hardening the skin.
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- Good night, Dick.
- Good night, Jack.
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Wake up. Wake up.
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- Stand! - More ammunition.
- Stand, I said. Let's secure a treaty.
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- Too many. Too many.
- To the water.
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Where's Speke?
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Stop here.
Exactly here.
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Drive on.
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I'll be along shortly.
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Careful with that one, Tom.
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I didn't want you to see me get out of the carriage
this way. My wounds will heal quite soon.
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You look splendid, John.
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- As you can see, the wound is suppurating.
I think there is a lot of pus.
- Perhaps, we should lance it, sir.
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You assured me, that this surgery
would leave no scars.
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Then, what you call this?
A young butcher, that's what I call him.
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- Should be prohibited from practicing.
- Who was that?
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When did you get back?
Where did this happen?
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Did the repair myself. You'd have been
proud of your older brother.
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This last journey, Edward ...
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I bungled it.
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Two friends killed
and many bearers.
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One young lieutenant horribly wounded.
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- A good man.
- There is good men in my profession too.
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Africa is so vast. It won't be explored
in our lifetimes.
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The Nile's an obsession. I need to go back
and I want you to come with me.
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Medicine is my obsession.
You know that.
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If you returned with some bizarre fungus growing from
your armpit, you would have to find another doctor.
I can't come.
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Sorry to press you like this.
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- I'll sleep here.
- Sleep in the bedroom.
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- I'll be quite comfortable on the couch.
- And if we have guests?
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I'm a geographer.
I'll navigate.
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And Sir Gentlemen, we are most grateful to
Captain Burton for his activities in Africa ...
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where our distinguished colleague
Dr. David Livingstone continues to work.
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The resources of the Nile ..
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its certain treasures ...
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await discovery.
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It gives me pleasure to introduce
Captain Richard Burton.
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So I thank the Royal Geographical Society for its support.
If our small excursion ended abruptly...
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I am convinced a larger fully armed expedition
would bring us the success we so much desire.
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Research is already underway
to determine a safer route.
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Since no white man has ever penetrated this area
we are somewhat at the mercy of Arab information.
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The source of the Nile and the mysteries
of Central Africa remain to be found.
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A major effort now, I am sure, would be to
the glory of the Society and Her Majesty the Queen.
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Well done, Richard.
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Father, how well do you know the Speke family?
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Couldn't hear you.
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- Burton wants to finance another expedition.
- Burton will bring the Society the biggest success.
Mark my words.
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- The way the man dresses! - Surely you are not
resentful because his publisher is someone else?
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- He's Irish.
- And Livingstone is a Scott.
- -Entirely different matter.
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Dr. Livingstone is our
most esteemed Christian missionary.
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You haven't met Speke, have you?
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Je suis la! La f�te commence!
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- One of your admirers.
- Algernon Swinburne.
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I always wondered, Captain Burton, why you didn't return
to England after your exploit in Mecca.
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- You could have been knighted.
- I prefer to stay in Cairo. With the whores.
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Better a night in Cairo
than to be knighted in London.
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- Lady Houghton...
- Richard, may I introduce you to Isabel Arundell.
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Isabel, our guest of honour,
Captain Richard Burton.
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I caution you, Richard ...
She knows a good deal about you.
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- I brought this volume along, in the hope
that you would inscribe it.
- Which volume?
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- Instructions on the use of bayonet and sabre.
- Strange choice.
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- Why not one of my travel episodes?
- It's the only book of yours
my parents will permit me to keep.
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- My book.
- You don't want me to sign it?
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I do want you to sign it. I do.
Thank you.
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- Done.
- Thank you.
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"To innocence and virtue".
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- How presumptuous.
- You were at the Royal Geographical Society.
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Rules. I was ejected.
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Not without a struggle, I recall.
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Now, Burton, tell us about the real Africa.
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00:24:54,551 --> 00:24:58,339
- Did you kill many men?
- My Lord, who is this dandy?
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I always want wit,
elegance and beauty at my table.
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- And in this case ...
- You've placed the beauty among us.
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I was wondering if you enjoyed using
your famous sword on the natives?
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In Africa, sir, a sword or spear as blunt
as your wit would be useless indeed.
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Ladies and gentlemen ...
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To our host, Lord Houghton.
To his eccentric tastes.
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- And average wine.
- Thank you.
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May I recommend you see my tailor.
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You are indeed, lord,
the most direct of all politicians.
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Fashions have changed a trifle
in the last decade.
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- Am I that absurd?
- In a word ... yes.
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You know, my husband is very worldly.
It can be difficult at times.
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If I were a man ...
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I would be Richard Burton.
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- Where was this? Here?
- I found it behind them, actually.
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- Dance?
- Thank you.
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I've just learned a few things
I didn't know about you.
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Tell me.
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Well, that you are, for example,
an ungainly dancer.
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The man who finds the Nile's source will become more famous,
more honoured, than any career officer in the army.
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It's the last great prize. John will become rich
through the sale of books that my father and I will publish.
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May I confide in you?
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In all the years he's been away,
I have received two, maybe three letters.
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He has great difficulty writing.
And this man, Burton ...
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I know my way.
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- Are you all right, John?
- I have problem balancing the stone.
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- Let me help you.
- No.
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You are amazing.
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I want to ride tomorrow.
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Of course. We'll go together.
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Your brother carries with him
that wonderful odour of fresh farm dung.
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Tell me your impression of Burton.
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Those who served him, loved him.
But he often rebukes. Unnecessarily.
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He was responsible for your wounds.
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Perhaps.
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But it was worth it.
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I had never before such a
sense of purpose.
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You're in pain.
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I'm fine, Larry.
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Stop scratching. It's healing.
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- I tried to enlist with the nursing corps.
- For Crimea?
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- Florence Nightingale, she says I am too inexperienced.
- Well, the patients have been spared.
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- You studied hypnotism, didn't you?
- With a yogi in Rajasthan.
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- Does it relieve pain?
- And boredom.
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Try it.
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- Here, in the botanical gardens?
- Yes, you can.
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Concentrate.
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Concentrate.
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You will relax.
Your mind will empty.
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Here, in the botanical gardens?
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Please, father. If we make a contribution to
the Royal Geographical Society ...
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... they will have to accept Speke and we will have
exclusive rights to publish his findings.
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- But you've already suggested that he is semi illiterate.
- Your son is a ...
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Your son is a skilled editor.
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John Hanning Speke is English.
Burton is not.
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Now surely, the public prefers its own hero
from a good English family.
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Is your primary interest in Speke ...
business?
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Sign.
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- Where did you tell your parents you will be out tonight?
- At the opera.
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- Which one?
- Mozart.
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Don Giovanni.
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You once wrote that you inspected a lover
in Cairo with a candle.
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Don't remember. You've made me forget
all other women.
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The memory will return, I'm sure.
In the name of science.
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What is it?
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I want to meet your parents.
You must prepare the way.
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You have a small amount of preparation
to do yourself, Richard.
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- I suppose you hunt in Africa?
- When I need food.
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I am fond of hunting myself.
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Yes, a fine sport indeed. Brings out a man's
skill and daring under perilous circumstances.
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Ever shot a lion?
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No... just partridge.
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Yours is a vagabond life.
In dusty faraway places.
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I often live in tents, yes. Better for observing
intrinsic customs and ways of behaviour.
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- Is that the English policy?
- No, but it should be.
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- How many languages do you speak?
- 23.
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And some Turkish dialects from Bermia.
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And what of religion?
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Religion? I've seen a man raised
from the dead in India.
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I have kissed the holy stone in Kaba and Mecca.
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I have read the Confucius, the Koran
and the Kabbalah in the original manuscripts.
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As for my own spiritual progress ...
I'm working on it.
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Here, take this.
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I'm maybe gone for ...
who knows?
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- It will keep you safe.
- Bye, Isabel.
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Goodbye, my love.
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Sir, I am very much strong.
Good legs for walking.
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No, I said not you.
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Wait here.
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Sir, I know languages.
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Swahili, the desert people
and the Mountains of the Moon.
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- You know the Mountains of the Moon?
- Yes, and my father see big water.
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What's Jemadar got against you?
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Well, he is giving me orders but he is not my Sultan.
So I make him to bite him.
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- So you bit the Jemadar?
- Yes, I am Sidi Bombay, the soldier.
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You just give me a English uniform.
I would very much go with you.
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- Can you help me pick good honest men?
- Very Much.
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- All your maps have vast blank spaces.
-To the South, Burton.
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Follow the ancient slave routes.
They may be safer.
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00:38:06,477 --> 00:38:12,074
- Jemadar should not be in charge of the caravan.
- Then put yourself in charge, Jack.
229
00:38:12,277 --> 00:38:15,350
Yes, very well.
230
00:38:15,558 --> 00:38:17,992
I already have.
231
00:38:18,198 --> 00:38:22,396
That young man is here because he
wants to return to England to success.
232
00:38:22,598 --> 00:38:26,876
But you, I think you enjoy
the days of your life.
233
00:38:27,078 --> 00:38:32,596
Make no mistake, I mean
to have success as well.
234
00:38:32,798 --> 00:38:37,747
In this wilderness, you will find
only Allah's terrible whimsy.
235
00:38:50,638 --> 00:38:56,669
Dear Isabel, we will be the first white men to approach the interior.
236
00:38:56,879 --> 00:39:01,077
We're preceded by reputation as colonial slave traders.
237
00:39:01,279 --> 00:39:04,954
Our bearers are fearful of attack.
238
00:39:05,159 --> 00:39:10,790
We've been warned that fevers and madness await us.
239
00:39:10,998 --> 00:39:14,388
Suitable pace should be a 1000 miles in 100 days.
240
00:39:14,598 --> 00:39:19,547
Hopefully it won't take longer, since I neglected to bring more than one walking suit.
241
00:39:19,758 --> 00:39:24,548
Love, Richard.
242
00:40:16,678 --> 00:40:18,953
It's a Chronometer.
243
00:40:19,158 --> 00:40:23,357
- Actually it is a highly accurate clock.
- Yes, I can see that.
244
00:40:23,559 --> 00:40:29,555
In a few days topography will change.
We may lose sight of any trail.
245
00:40:29,759 --> 00:40:35,356
- I'll teach you how to take your position.
- Yes, of course.
246
00:40:35,559 --> 00:40:38,869
Here, clumsy.
247
00:40:39,079 --> 00:40:42,389
One does it this way.
248
00:41:23,240 --> 00:41:25,673
My God. Human.
249
00:41:37,759 --> 00:41:40,671
My first lion.
Rifle.
250
00:41:40,879 --> 00:41:46,273
Don't shoot those beauties, Jack.
I'll see if I can drive them off.
251
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,358
Leave him.
He is escaped slave.
252
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:54,873
I'll stay right here, Dick ...
just in case you fail.
253
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:51,355
He fears to go back in the direction
we travel.
254
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:54,758
But you saved him so he is
very much your servant.
255
00:43:54,961 --> 00:44:00,911
- Ask him about his two set of ears.
- Oh, this is magic man.
256
00:44:08,761 --> 00:44:13,960
Yes, He has very much ears.
He can listen to the voices of the dead.
257
00:44:14,161 --> 00:44:16,436
Nonsense.
258
00:44:31,041 --> 00:44:34,920
He has not seen white man before.
259
00:45:33,162 --> 00:45:37,792
- Sir, some people, they are stealing.
Your servants.
- What?
260
00:45:43,082 --> 00:45:45,835
Come back here!
261
00:45:46,042 --> 00:45:49,114
Stop! I know who you are!
262
00:46:04,242 --> 00:46:07,518
Come back! That's mine!
263
00:46:07,722 --> 00:46:13,752
It's a bit crude, but in conjunction with
the chronometer it will tell us our longitude.
264
00:46:13,962 --> 00:46:20,231
Last night 13 bearers deserted. We've lost most of
our guns and most of our food supply seems gone.
265
00:46:20,442 --> 00:46:24,037
I'll organize a hunting party.
266
00:46:27,362 --> 00:46:30,832
What does he hear,
I want to know.
267
00:46:31,042 --> 00:46:36,435
Last night there were many voices.
He say, they speak of you.
268
00:46:36,642 --> 00:46:39,440
What did they say?
269
00:46:44,963 --> 00:46:48,433
They tell this man, that you
will take his heart away.
270
00:46:48,643 --> 00:46:51,999
And what does he suppose that means?
271
00:46:59,243 --> 00:47:02,120
He cannot say.
272
00:47:24,362 --> 00:47:26,433
Dear Isabel...
273
00:47:26,643 --> 00:47:32,559
Even though Mabruki has been a slave for so long,his mind has remained free.
274
00:47:32,763 --> 00:47:36,995
He asked if we wanted to find the beginning of the river ...
275
00:47:37,203 --> 00:47:42,152
why not start at its end, walk along its shores and see where it begins.
276
00:47:42,363 --> 00:47:47,960
I explained many had tried that way and been swallowed upby the vast deserts of the Nile.
277
00:47:48,163 --> 00:47:52,236
"Perhaps, your river", he told me, "is meant to be mystery."
278
00:47:52,443 --> 00:47:57,915
"You should look for what it can give you: a bath and a good meal."
279
00:48:12,363 --> 00:48:14,831
Wait.
280
00:48:15,043 --> 00:48:17,921
Sidi, show them cloth.
281
00:48:39,163 --> 00:48:44,237
They can give us some food but they
want these clothes to have names.
282
00:48:44,443 --> 00:48:48,755
Very well.
This is calico.
283
00:48:48,963 --> 00:48:52,400
This is paisley.
284
00:48:52,604 --> 00:48:56,438
That's ... rum punch.
285
00:48:58,564 --> 00:49:02,079
Sorry, Dick, you're wrong about that one.
286
00:49:02,284 --> 00:49:06,038
That's not rum punch, good sir ...
287
00:49:06,244 --> 00:49:08,394
that's malt whiskey.
288
00:49:08,604 --> 00:49:12,040
And that's chocolate pudding.
289
00:49:14,244 --> 00:49:17,121
Very becoming, actually.
290
00:49:23,403 --> 00:49:26,281
What's this?
291
00:49:37,004 --> 00:49:41,236
Don't be offended.
It's a blessing.
It's all right.
292
00:49:41,444 --> 00:49:44,436
The bargain has been made.
293
00:49:50,164 --> 00:49:52,917
Try some?
294
00:51:46,565 --> 00:51:49,443
What is it, sir?
What's wrong, sir?
295
00:51:49,645 --> 00:51:54,161
- What's wrong?
- There's a beetle in my ear!
- Sidi, get a candle.
296
00:52:00,805 --> 00:52:04,320
Sidi, hold his wrists, steady.
297
00:52:15,645 --> 00:52:19,638
I'll get you Warburg drops
for the pain.
298
00:52:21,765 --> 00:52:24,643
Do not let go.
299
00:52:30,966 --> 00:52:34,436
It isn't working!
300
00:52:34,646 --> 00:52:39,241
That damn thing
is eating my eardrum.
301
00:52:59,245 --> 00:53:02,317
I killed it.
302
00:53:02,525 --> 00:53:06,916
I know I've killed it,
I can't hear it anymore.
303
00:53:07,125 --> 00:53:10,914
It is alright, Jack.
You never listen anyway.
304
00:53:16,846 --> 00:53:19,724
On that Monday, I rowed.
305
00:53:19,926 --> 00:53:22,724
Faraway you did row.
306
00:53:22,926 --> 00:53:26,760
Calm and peaceful, the sea was
307
00:53:26,966 --> 00:53:30,242
in the dawn's glow.
308
00:53:30,446 --> 00:53:36,123
I did not know
309
00:53:36,326 --> 00:53:41,320
that cold death
hovered low.
310
00:53:41,526 --> 00:53:44,404
That sad day
311
00:53:44,606 --> 00:53:47,039
still haunts me
312
00:53:47,245 --> 00:53:51,524
wherever I go.
313
00:54:16,086 --> 00:54:22,321
For a month after John's face healed, every time he sneezed a strange squeaky sound emerged from his ear.
314
00:54:22,526 --> 00:54:29,921
This delighted our bearers. They kept asking him to hold his nose and make that whistle sound.
315
00:54:30,126 --> 00:54:33,164
John was not amused.
316
00:54:42,607 --> 00:54:47,920
- Sidi, tell them to stay away. Don't let them drink.
- This water is infected. You'll kill yourselves
317
00:54:56,446 --> 00:55:01,315
- If I get smallpox, you must leave me behind.
- Yes, yes, I will.
318
00:55:01,526 --> 00:55:04,916
You needn't be so quick to agree.
319
00:55:17,447 --> 00:55:20,678
The men are hungry and sick.
320
00:55:20,887 --> 00:55:26,757
We have travelled 178 days hearing nothing of the lake we seek.
321
00:55:26,967 --> 00:55:33,122
Speke only seems happy when he is hunting. Game is scarce and rarely edible.
322
00:55:36,687 --> 00:55:40,521
The men argue but rarely remember why.
323
00:55:43,927 --> 00:55:48,000
So far we have seen only a series of poor villages.
324
00:55:48,207 --> 00:55:51,802
Drought and famine are all around.
325
00:55:52,007 --> 00:55:58,720
Half our bearers have deserted. Most of our supplies are gone.
326
00:56:01,647 --> 00:56:07,916
At night the men smoke cannabis and tell stories, which may be the last curious statements they ever uttered.
327
00:56:13,887 --> 00:56:17,880
At times we seem to move in a dream.
328
00:56:18,087 --> 00:56:22,126
Memories of England seem far away.
329
00:56:57,288 --> 00:57:02,521
My father's caravan came across the desert.
When they reached these valleys they took slaves.
330
00:57:02,728 --> 00:57:08,723
They proceeded to the coast, sold their
captives, sailed home in ships ...
331
00:57:08,927 --> 00:57:12,442
... and again began the cycle.
332
00:57:12,647 --> 00:57:16,925
Now we stay in the valley
with the Chief Fundikira's tribe.
333
00:57:17,127 --> 00:57:24,603
- Have you heard of a lake?
- They say that to the west there is water.
334
00:57:24,808 --> 00:57:30,599
You must not hurry to your deaths.
You should stay.
335
00:57:30,808 --> 00:57:35,120
Conversation is the soul
of life in this place.
336
00:58:02,248 --> 00:58:05,479
The chief believes in talking lists.
337
00:58:05,689 --> 00:58:11,047
- He believes to make conversation
very much important this way.
- I understand.
338
00:58:11,249 --> 00:58:18,518
The things that haunt men.
A talkative woman, a mosquito, diarrhoea ...
339
00:58:18,728 --> 00:58:22,607
- ... and death in a place far from home.
- Yes, my king.
340
00:58:26,048 --> 00:58:28,881
The parts of a man
a lion eats.
341
00:58:29,128 --> 00:58:32,438
The buttocks, thighs ...
342
00:58:32,648 --> 00:58:38,280
the flesh of the upper arm
and then sometimes the face and tongue.
343
00:58:38,488 --> 00:58:41,719
All life devours a man too.
344
00:58:41,928 --> 00:58:46,479
It eats his muscles and strength.
His brain and then his restless heart.
345
00:59:28,768 --> 00:59:32,921
- When are we leaving?
- In time. All in good time.
346
00:59:33,129 --> 00:59:35,927
We don't have any time.
347
00:59:37,849 --> 00:59:41,922
- What about living, Jack?
- We came to find the Nile.
348
00:59:42,129 --> 00:59:46,839
I am thinking to break this thing,
so I can mend it again.
349
00:59:47,049 --> 00:59:51,918
Without proper instruments
we are not geographers.
350
00:59:55,849 --> 00:59:59,125
What do you think
you're discovering here, Dick?
351
01:00:02,889 --> 01:00:06,325
They are praying for our journey, Jack.
352
01:00:06,529 --> 01:00:10,158
I don't need it.
353
01:00:20,970 --> 01:00:25,919
- Will you do me a favour? Pass these
to the next caravan to the coast.
- Of course.
354
01:01:54,410 --> 01:01:57,686
My boots ... get them off.
355
01:02:01,370 --> 01:02:04,328
My legs are swollen.
356
01:02:20,450 --> 01:02:23,841
Mabruki say he has seen this before.
357
01:02:24,051 --> 01:02:28,647
A man will die in three days unless
his legs are cut.
358
01:02:30,371 --> 01:02:34,728
Cut the legs, Jack.
Cut them!
359
01:02:43,611 --> 01:02:47,649
- Cut them.
- I can't.
360
01:02:47,850 --> 01:02:52,446
- Sir, you must let the blood out. You must.
- Give it to me.
361
01:04:54,518 --> 01:04:57,669
Sir, it's water.
362
01:04:59,717 --> 01:05:05,667
- It's just a small mountain lake.
- No sir, it's very much water.
363
01:05:05,877 --> 01:05:08,869
Lift me up. Lift me up!
364
01:05:18,438 --> 01:05:23,876
John Hanning Speke!
It's the lake!
365
01:05:30,438 --> 01:05:33,316
We've done it!
366
01:06:29,918 --> 01:06:35,709
They call the Lake Tanganyika. 'The Meeting Place of Waters'.
367
01:06:35,918 --> 01:06:39,355
With long boats we set out to explore the shores.
368
01:06:51,839 --> 01:06:57,948
Large as this lake is, we couldn't determine it as the definite source.
369
01:06:58,159 --> 01:07:03,677
We went ashore following streams but they ended dry on an impenetrable marsh.
370
01:07:07,879 --> 01:07:14,636
Some of the men drank fetid water. They were afflicted with dysentery, malaria and despair.
371
01:07:45,039 --> 01:07:48,918
It's not here, John.
We'll have to go ashore.
372
01:07:49,119 --> 01:07:55,035
Say what you mean.
You want to give up and go back, don't you?
373
01:07:55,239 --> 01:07:58,549
For God's sake, John,
these men are dying!
374
01:07:58,759 --> 01:08:03,993
Row, you bastards, Row!
Come on, row, damn you!
375
01:08:15,640 --> 01:08:20,919
I decided we would continue overland, in search of a connecting waterway.
376
01:08:40,839 --> 01:08:44,514
Stay here.
I'll go and talk to them.
377
01:09:20,480 --> 01:09:27,831
These men say there is a great kingdom
to the north. They have heard of a lake.
378
01:09:28,041 --> 01:09:34,434
I'm tired of rumours. If there's another
lake, we'll find it ourselves.
379
01:09:34,640 --> 01:09:37,712
We need supplies, food.
380
01:09:44,040 --> 01:09:49,319
At times I wonder why we continue, but I have no answer.
381
01:09:49,520 --> 01:09:56,119
I ask myself, why the only echo is: 'Damned fool, the devil tries you'.
382
01:10:08,440 --> 01:10:13,310
- He wants to leave.
- Tell him if he stays,
I will see no harm comes to him.
383
01:10:15,721 --> 01:10:21,717
- He will stay, but he is very much afraid.
- Tell him I need him. Make him understand.
He has my word on this.
384
01:10:21,921 --> 01:10:24,913
He understands, but he believes only a little.
385
01:10:25,121 --> 01:10:29,831
Convince him. And tell him to stop following me.
John, I need your help.
386
01:10:30,041 --> 01:10:34,831
- What is it?
- I can't get my trousers down,
I need to shit.
387
01:11:18,161 --> 01:11:24,031
We come as friends, from the great island
that rules the Northern Sea. We are friends.
388
01:12:28,722 --> 01:12:34,638
This man is Veldu, minister of Lord Ngola.
From over there to here, all this is their kingdom.
389
01:12:50,442 --> 01:12:54,195
Veldu recites their laws.
390
01:12:54,401 --> 01:12:58,917
No one may enter
without splendid dress.
391
01:12:59,121 --> 01:13:02,637
No one may sit
above this Lord Ngola.
392
01:13:04,562 --> 01:13:08,111
No one may come without gifts.
393
01:15:17,203 --> 01:15:22,402
- Does the white man see Lord Ngola?
- Yes, we see him.
394
01:15:24,163 --> 01:15:30,159
- Does he truly see him?
- We see the king of Paradise and Mountains and Wind.
395
01:15:30,363 --> 01:15:36,552
We were told to bring gifts and we brought them.
These are the things he has stolen.
Your minister is a thief.
396
01:15:41,483 --> 01:15:45,874
He says, "kill these men and take their
possessions and sell them to caravan as slaves".
397
01:15:46,083 --> 01:15:50,440
Let it be known, we are kings too.
From the great island in the far sea.
398
01:15:54,564 --> 01:15:57,442
He says you are no king.
399
01:17:26,164 --> 01:17:30,362
- It's a special gift for the king.
- He says, sit down.
400
01:17:41,204 --> 01:17:43,434
Stand back.
401
01:18:41,925 --> 01:18:45,235
Sidi, tell him it's a weapon.
A dangerous weapon.
402
01:19:01,885 --> 01:19:04,160
Don't!
403
01:20:09,966 --> 01:20:12,844
What do you make of this?
404
01:20:13,046 --> 01:20:16,243
It's not bad, is it?
405
01:20:16,446 --> 01:20:21,042
We are not his guests, Jack.
We are his prisoners.
406
01:20:52,926 --> 01:20:58,000
The king's sister, Lema,
she is very much sick.
407
01:20:58,206 --> 01:21:02,836
She says she needs a beautiful
white doctor man.
408
01:21:19,286 --> 01:21:21,800
She say her husband died.
409
01:21:22,006 --> 01:21:26,443
She have very much strong desire
and very much lonely heart.
410
01:21:28,126 --> 01:21:31,004
Yes, I am sure.
411
01:22:00,926 --> 01:22:06,603
They tell he is escaped prisoner.
Once he had power here.
412
01:22:06,806 --> 01:22:10,879
He offended Veldu.
They made him slave.
413
01:22:13,006 --> 01:22:16,716
They won't free him or sell him to us
at any price?
414
01:22:25,327 --> 01:22:29,320
He says you are no king.
He wants to shame you.
415
01:22:29,527 --> 01:22:32,280
He wants you to beg.
416
01:22:36,767 --> 01:22:40,726
Your touch make her feel much better.
So you come every day.
417
01:22:40,927 --> 01:22:47,196
Tell her yes. but I want permission to leave
and I want permission to look for the lake.
418
01:22:56,327 --> 01:23:01,606
When she better, she say yes.
The beautiful white doctor, he can go.
419
01:23:03,727 --> 01:23:07,197
Tell her that I care for her
with all my heart.
420
01:23:09,927 --> 01:23:14,796
Speke has permission to leave with a handful of bearers for a short expedition.
421
01:23:15,007 --> 01:23:18,795
To assure his return, they are keeping me here.
422
01:23:19,007 --> 01:23:23,797
I fear for Mabruki.
I swore no harm would come to him.
423
01:23:24,007 --> 01:23:28,842
Can I ever believe in myself again if I fail to keep that promise?
424
01:23:29,047 --> 01:23:32,801
They've confiscated everything,
but this last thermometer.
425
01:23:33,007 --> 01:23:35,760
Keep it safe.
426
01:23:35,967 --> 01:23:40,598
- Remember: the lower the
boiling point, the higher the altitude.
- Yes, I know.
427
01:23:43,728 --> 01:23:46,401
I better be off.
428
01:23:46,608 --> 01:23:50,283
Heal your legs.
429
01:23:54,088 --> 01:23:56,044
Find it, Jack.
430
01:23:58,648 --> 01:24:01,003
You know, Dick?
431
01:24:03,608 --> 01:24:07,486
I'm still quite deaf in this ear.
432
01:24:28,088 --> 01:24:31,603
I want Mabruki freed!
I want him freed!
433
01:25:47,128 --> 01:25:50,405
- Sidi, you're hurt.
- No sir, I am able to go.
434
01:25:50,609 --> 01:25:54,682
I can travel faster without you.
I think you should camp down here.
435
01:25:54,889 --> 01:25:59,405
- But sir, I've come so far for this.
- My mind is made up.
436
01:25:59,609 --> 01:26:04,478
I'll return in a few days.
Ali, Juma. Stay here.
437
01:26:04,689 --> 01:26:07,965
The rest of you come with me.
438
01:26:10,929 --> 01:26:13,363
Rest.
439
01:27:38,729 --> 01:27:41,402
Who are you?
440
01:27:41,609 --> 01:27:44,203
You look drugged.
441
01:27:45,609 --> 01:27:48,760
And this man says he is a king.
Look at him.
442
01:27:51,289 --> 01:27:54,167
They've drugged me.
443
01:27:59,450 --> 01:28:03,409
The Royal Geographical Society.
444
01:28:12,730 --> 01:28:20,000
- This man is free. I freed him.
- A king does not care about slaves.
445
01:28:20,210 --> 01:28:24,044
Look.
446
01:28:25,010 --> 01:28:28,320
Take this sword.
Use it.
447
01:28:43,130 --> 01:28:45,803
For God's sake.
448
01:28:46,010 --> 01:28:48,888
He's my friend.
449
01:28:58,210 --> 01:29:01,646
Lord, he is crying.
Is crying fit for a king?
450
01:29:01,850 --> 01:29:07,766
Yours is a cruel and sadistic kingdom.
This is a vicious place, you hear me?
451
01:29:14,930 --> 01:29:19,321
You are a little people.
You will pass away.
452
01:29:21,451 --> 01:29:24,807
You deserve to be forgotten.
453
01:29:25,011 --> 01:29:28,606
A good king treats his people kindly.
454
01:29:28,811 --> 01:29:32,008
Slavery must end.
455
01:29:39,811 --> 01:29:43,007
God help me.
456
01:29:54,250 --> 01:29:57,560
Now he is free.
457
01:30:06,291 --> 01:30:11,046
Kill him.
Make slaves of his friends.
458
01:31:47,852 --> 01:31:52,687
Yes, I'll say your name in my country.
459
01:32:16,612 --> 01:32:20,685
I found it.
I found the source.
460
01:32:22,812 --> 01:32:25,804
Are you all right?
461
01:32:28,012 --> 01:32:32,005
Listen to me, Dick. Please.
We have our goal.
462
01:32:32,212 --> 01:32:36,922
- We have permission to leave here.
- Permission to leave?
463
01:32:37,132 --> 01:32:43,207
- What did you do?
- Ngola is rewarding me for having great powers.
464
01:32:43,412 --> 01:32:47,007
Oh, good. Then come with me.
I'll show you the lake.
465
01:32:48,572 --> 01:32:51,803
Mabruki is dead.
466
01:32:52,012 --> 01:32:57,770
Richard, but we have the Nile.
I know I found it.
467
01:32:58,413 --> 01:33:04,170
The monsoon is coming. We must
go back to the coast immediately.
468
01:33:04,373 --> 01:33:09,890
- Hear me. I know it's the Nile's source.
- You saw the river flowing out of the lake?
469
01:33:10,092 --> 01:33:16,486
- No, I didn't see an actual effluent
but I know such a river is there.
- How do you know, Jack?
470
01:33:16,692 --> 01:33:21,482
I took two accurate readings.
It's a much higher lake than Tanganyika.
471
01:33:21,692 --> 01:33:24,889
- Did you go around it?
- No, it's too vast.
472
01:33:25,092 --> 01:33:30,962
So you didn't circle the lake, you speak none of
the languages there, you saw no river and yet you know?
473
01:33:31,172 --> 01:33:38,568
- This is the Nile. you can see for yourself.
Come with me. You can estimate the altitude.
- Estimate?
474
01:33:38,773 --> 01:33:44,564
- I'm afraid I broke our last thermometer.
- Then we have no instruments. None.
475
01:33:44,773 --> 01:33:48,527
What should we do?
Guess?
476
01:33:48,733 --> 01:33:53,170
- If you'd seen it, you'd know I'm right.
- Jack, we won't talk about it now.
477
01:33:53,373 --> 01:33:57,889
You saw a body of water
you know nothing about.
478
01:34:00,493 --> 01:34:03,929
I've thought to name it Lake Victoria.
479
01:34:11,493 --> 01:34:13,687
Dear Isabel,
480
01:34:13,892 --> 01:34:20,366
The last thing I saw was an African city, proceeding as if our ordeal never occurred.
481
01:34:20,573 --> 01:34:24,964
The Chief Minister, now dead, was suspended in dishonour.
482
01:34:27,093 --> 01:34:32,884
This ancient culture, with its elegant architecture, complex language and ornate ritual ...
483
01:34:33,093 --> 01:34:39,692
would now return to its enterprise, including the taking of slaves.
484
01:34:39,893 --> 01:34:42,771
Everything is prepared.
485
01:34:50,533 --> 01:34:55,561
Richard, you must tell me
what happened here.
486
01:35:14,494 --> 01:35:20,762
Sidi, himself an ex-slave, asked if such evil practices existed in my country.
487
01:35:20,973 --> 01:35:26,843
"In my country", I replied, "men had beheaded their fathers and sons for power."
488
01:35:27,053 --> 01:35:32,923
"And as for slavery, the white man in fact introduced to it the additional horror of commerce."
489
01:35:37,093 --> 01:35:40,483
I have asked Jack to carry this letter back.
490
01:35:40,693 --> 01:35:48,044
The return journey took over seven months. Through long stretches of rain and sickness.
491
01:35:48,254 --> 01:35:51,963
My legs are badly swollen again.
492
01:35:52,174 --> 01:35:55,564
I'll wait and recover at the coast.
493
01:35:55,774 --> 01:36:01,087
It would be nice to be standing well and strong when we next embrace.
494
01:36:01,294 --> 01:36:04,570
Love, Richard.
495
01:36:24,654 --> 01:36:27,248
Larry?
496
01:36:27,454 --> 01:36:30,651
My God. John?
497
01:36:36,614 --> 01:36:40,163
- Damn speechless.
- Impossible.
498
01:36:40,374 --> 01:36:43,366
- When did you get back?
- I have only just arrived.
499
01:36:43,574 --> 01:36:47,692
I brought you my journals.
I have some great news.
500
01:36:49,814 --> 01:36:54,490
Murchison thinks you should address
the Royal Geographical immediately.
501
01:36:54,694 --> 01:36:58,369
- It is called for a assembly tomorrow.
- Tomorrow?
502
01:36:58,574 --> 01:37:02,965
- Without Burton?
- Please, it's the President's wish.
503
01:37:07,094 --> 01:37:09,973
What's the matter?
504
01:37:10,175 --> 01:37:13,212
It's just that all this is so unexpected.
505
01:37:13,415 --> 01:37:17,852
And Richard will be back soon,
I'm sure.
506
01:37:18,055 --> 01:37:22,685
Well if you'll excuse me, there is
much to do for you.
507
01:37:36,254 --> 01:37:38,973
Let me ask you, Jack.
508
01:37:39,174 --> 01:37:44,294
- When you first met Burton
and the two of you were attacked and wounded ...
- Yes?
509
01:37:44,494 --> 01:37:50,285
- Did you ever read his official report
to the army afterwards?
- His report? No, I never saw it.
510
01:37:50,494 --> 01:37:55,171
It happens that I've read it.
He makes no mention of you.
511
01:37:55,375 --> 01:38:00,654
Except to say you were an inexperienced officer
who acted in a somewhat cowardly manner while under attack.
512
01:38:00,855 --> 01:38:04,165
- He couldn't have written that.
- But did.
513
01:38:06,095 --> 01:38:12,170
You won't see that report, neither will
anyone else. I've had it destroyed.
514
01:38:12,375 --> 01:38:16,163
- I saved his life.
- Of course you did.
515
01:38:16,375 --> 01:38:21,574
If he slandered you once, he
surely will again. Especially
now that the stakes are so high.
516
01:38:28,695 --> 01:38:31,971
I haven't seen my family yet.
517
01:38:32,175 --> 01:38:35,168
They're expecting me.
518
01:38:35,376 --> 01:38:39,688
Receive tomorrow, what you
so well deserve.
519
01:39:11,335 --> 01:39:16,363
You'll come to my house and rest.
There's still time to prepare a rebuttal.
520
01:39:16,575 --> 01:39:20,091
You know me better than that, I
won't go about arguing for my career.
521
01:39:20,296 --> 01:39:25,768
I'm not talking about the minor politics of one's career.
Two weeks ago, Speke committed an act of treachery.
522
01:39:25,976 --> 01:39:30,174
- Have you sent for Isabel?
- They're sending him back!
523
01:39:30,376 --> 01:39:33,652
A fully funded expedition
and he's in charge.
524
01:39:35,496 --> 01:39:38,772
- He is ambitious and weak.
- Weak? You don't know him.
525
01:39:38,976 --> 01:39:42,685
He allows Oliphant and Murchison to
ridicule you. He's deadly in his weakness.
526
01:39:42,896 --> 01:39:47,094
- He saved my life. Many times.
- Then go to him.
527
01:39:47,296 --> 01:39:51,288
- I can't. He must come to me.
- I would not be sure of that.
528
01:39:51,495 --> 01:39:54,726
He leaves for Africa
in two weeks.
529
01:40:02,896 --> 01:40:05,171
Isabel.
530
01:41:02,256 --> 01:41:05,771
- Father. A delightful ceremony, father.
- Thank you.
531
01:41:07,896 --> 01:41:13,892
- Isabel, allow me to present my good friend,
Lord Russell of the foreign office.
- How do you do?
532
01:41:14,096 --> 01:41:17,566
The most charming chapel
your house has, my dear.
533
01:41:17,776 --> 01:41:21,007
- I didn't realize Lord Russell
knew my son-in-law.
- Oh, yes, indeed.
534
01:41:21,216 --> 01:41:24,970
Undoubtedly, you were aware that
Richard is an expert in Arab affairs.
535
01:41:25,176 --> 01:41:32,288
I thought I knew everything about your
husband. Until your wedding. I had no idea
about the depths of his good sense.
536
01:41:32,497 --> 01:41:36,809
Should he not be thought of
for a major consulate?
537
01:41:44,697 --> 01:41:50,169
I am convinced the Nile's source flows from many lakes, not just one.
538
01:41:50,377 --> 01:41:54,131
I have repudiated Speke's findings in my own book.
539
01:41:54,337 --> 01:41:59,491
The Royal Geographical Society favours his account, unscientific as it is.
540
01:41:59,697 --> 01:42:05,566
Of course they sent him back to Africa. Fame, power, conquest, the expansion of the empire ...
541
01:42:05,776 --> 01:42:09,167
All these objectives suited them perfectly.
542
01:42:09,377 --> 01:42:15,088
My interest in what we can learn from ancient cultures insults them.
543
01:42:17,217 --> 01:42:21,733
But John's betrayal ... who could have predicted it?
544
01:42:21,937 --> 01:42:27,773
He has been used. I know his capacity for true friendship.
545
01:42:27,977 --> 01:42:34,576
I will not turn on him, nor beg the Royal Geographical Society to go back.
546
01:42:34,777 --> 01:42:39,851
This would validate their authority. My despisal.
547
01:42:41,977 --> 01:42:46,573
Speke's new reports from Africa will again prove inadequate.
548
01:42:49,097 --> 01:42:54,172
Will I ever return to that continent I so love?
549
01:43:27,377 --> 01:43:30,255
Now, ladies and gentlemen, thank you.
550
01:43:30,457 --> 01:43:33,370
Witless but wonderful.
551
01:43:33,578 --> 01:43:38,288
Oh! London just seemed buoyant.
I don't know when I've enjoyed it so much.
552
01:43:38,498 --> 01:43:42,377
Ladies and gentlemen,
would you please welcome ...
553
01:43:42,578 --> 01:43:45,172
a surprise guest.
554
01:43:45,378 --> 01:43:50,896
The real conqueror of the River Nile,
Mr. John Hanning Speke.
555
01:43:51,098 --> 01:43:56,570
- Did you arrange this, Larry?
- Go ahead, John. Take the stage.
556
01:44:00,698 --> 01:44:03,417
An interview later.
557
01:44:15,298 --> 01:44:18,177
I don't know what to say.
558
01:44:18,379 --> 01:44:23,168
You all seem so barbaric compared
to the Africans.
559
01:44:23,378 --> 01:44:27,087
I am not very talented at this.
560
01:44:28,698 --> 01:44:33,328
I do not know how exactly to thank you.
Expect to say thank you.
561
01:44:33,538 --> 01:44:38,373
- Tell us about the lake, sir.
- No, don't speak, Speke. Sing!
562
01:44:46,218 --> 01:44:50,973
There was a time we were
in a stretch of desert.
563
01:44:52,938 --> 01:44:55,771
Several of the bearers had already
died of thirst.
564
01:44:55,978 --> 01:45:01,258
My second in command had cuts
and wounds all over his body.
565
01:45:01,459 --> 01:45:05,771
Asked if he looked bad.
566
01:45:05,979 --> 01:45:08,777
How bad?
567
01:45:10,899 --> 01:45:15,575
I knew he was hurt,
but I was blind, you see ...
568
01:45:15,779 --> 01:45:19,374
and so I couldn't answer him.
569
01:45:19,579 --> 01:45:21,968
So... I sang.
570
01:45:23,699 --> 01:45:27,976
And even then,
in the hot desert sun ...
571
01:45:28,178 --> 01:45:32,171
in that bleak and hopeless landscape ...
572
01:45:32,378 --> 01:45:36,212
All I could think of, was:
'My God, I might have tuned'.
573
01:45:39,058 --> 01:45:42,893
So, if you will help me ...
574
01:46:32,900 --> 01:46:34,969
Newspapers.
575
01:46:35,179 --> 01:46:37,898
Speke again.
576
01:46:38,099 --> 01:46:40,693
I don't care.
577
01:46:40,899 --> 01:46:43,777
That is more than apparent.
578
01:46:45,699 --> 01:46:49,772
Richard, you must get out of here.
You must get out of England.
579
01:46:49,979 --> 01:46:52,891
Expeditions require money.
580
01:46:53,099 --> 01:46:55,374
Excuses.
581
01:46:55,579 --> 01:46:58,730
You are paralyzed in self-pity .
582
01:46:58,939 --> 01:47:04,252
- All right, let's borrow money from your family.
- You know that's impossible.
583
01:47:04,459 --> 01:47:07,896
Then ask your blessed church.
Tell them I will be a humble missionary.
584
01:47:08,100 --> 01:47:11,649
Don't speak against my church
and I won't speak against your brandy.
585
01:47:11,860 --> 01:47:17,776
For hundreds, maybe thousands of years,
Africans fished this lake.
They have washed their clothes.
586
01:47:17,980 --> 01:47:23,896
They've pissed in it.
How dare a white man claim to have discovered,
Africans have discovered it.
587
01:47:24,100 --> 01:47:29,891
- I won't argue about a patch of land
and whereabouts of a river.
- You can take a consular position.
588
01:47:31,540 --> 01:47:35,818
- They haven't asked me.
- I went to see Lord Russell.
589
01:47:36,020 --> 01:47:39,535
I specifically told you not to speak to anyone
at the foreign office.
590
01:47:39,740 --> 01:47:46,611
- There is a consulate open.
- You disobeyed me.
- In Brazil.
- What, in South America?
591
01:47:46,819 --> 01:47:52,816
- My qualifications are for Africa, Arabic countries.
- But you speak Portuguese,
you are qualified for anywhere in the world.
592
01:47:53,020 --> 01:47:57,172
You grovel before politicians.
It's despicable.
593
01:47:57,380 --> 01:48:03,649
Well then, fight! Fight for it! Fight for your name,
fight for your honour. If you don't, then I must.
594
01:48:15,300 --> 01:48:19,532
Careful with that thing.
You don't know how to use it.
595
01:48:19,740 --> 01:48:23,176
Then teach me.
596
01:48:25,740 --> 01:48:29,972
If I am given some grubby little consulate
on the wrong side of the world ...
597
01:48:30,180 --> 01:48:33,457
... you think I'll take you with me?
598
01:48:33,661 --> 01:48:36,698
You take me.
599
01:48:36,901 --> 01:48:41,577
You would die without me.
I'd die without you.
600
01:48:51,700 --> 01:48:58,856
Dr. Livingstone, may I present my
good friend, Richard Francis Burton.
601
01:49:00,900 --> 01:49:03,972
I've just finished your book.
602
01:49:04,180 --> 01:49:07,934
I wonder if you gentlemen would leave us
alone for a few minutes?
603
01:49:08,140 --> 01:49:13,976
There is much to discuss.
We will wait in the conference room.
604
01:49:21,901 --> 01:49:24,699
Got that in Africa, did you?
605
01:49:26,781 --> 01:49:30,376
Tribesmen. They lanced at my face.
606
01:49:30,581 --> 01:49:34,893
Split my palate, knocked out some
teeth, came out over here.
607
01:49:35,101 --> 01:49:39,140
- Risky profession.
- Indeed.
608
01:49:43,821 --> 01:49:49,691
You know, of course, that I was mauled by a lion?
If he hadn't just fed, he would have eaten all of me.
609
01:49:49,901 --> 01:49:54,179
As it was, he only chewed my shoulder.
610
01:49:59,101 --> 01:50:01,171
Bullet hole. Single bore.
611
01:50:01,381 --> 01:50:04,771
What about this?
612
01:50:04,981 --> 01:50:08,291
Sat on a scorpion.
613
01:50:08,501 --> 01:50:11,095
Squashed him dead...
614
01:50:11,301 --> 01:50:16,614
... but... his sting put this hole in my arse.
Nearly killed me.
615
01:50:18,621 --> 01:50:22,500
Cellulitis. Swells the leg.
616
01:50:22,701 --> 01:50:27,570
Had to lance it myself.
Drank some brandy that night.
617
01:50:30,101 --> 01:50:32,774
Rat bite.
618
01:50:32,981 --> 01:50:35,256
And that one?
619
01:50:37,381 --> 01:50:40,772
Nice and nasty.
620
01:50:40,982 --> 01:50:46,181
Yes, but you know?
I can't think for the life of me.
621
01:50:59,102 --> 01:51:04,221
- Do you miss Africa?
- I do.
622
01:51:04,421 --> 01:51:07,970
Must say, Burton's look very well.
623
01:51:08,181 --> 01:51:14,051
- And there are some interesting points in his account.
- Burton's evidence is hardly conclusive.
624
01:51:14,261 --> 01:51:20,780
You should have sent him back. Instead, you sent Speke.
And once again he didn't travel around the lake.
625
01:51:20,981 --> 01:51:23,177
- What's keeping them?
- Look at this.
626
01:51:23,382 --> 01:51:27,375
At one stretch Speke has the Nile
flowing uphill for 90 miles.
627
01:51:27,582 --> 01:51:31,370
John tells me all inconsistencies will be
cleared up in his published account.
628
01:51:31,582 --> 01:51:34,858
An account published for profit
by the Oliphants.
629
01:51:35,062 --> 01:51:38,896
Good chap, Burton.
I like his mettle.
630
01:51:39,102 --> 01:51:43,732
But who is the most reliable?
Surely, Speke.
631
01:51:45,302 --> 01:51:50,740
- Debate.
- Very appealing, two heroes on one platform.
632
01:51:50,942 --> 01:51:55,379
Now a debate will assure that every major scientist
will be at our next meeting.
633
01:51:55,582 --> 01:51:59,097
We could invite the newspapers.
The public.
634
01:51:59,302 --> 01:52:05,253
- Will Burton accept?
- I don't know. He's suffered
grave insult in your hands.
635
01:52:08,783 --> 01:52:12,536
Perhaps, it would all be too technical.
636
01:52:12,742 --> 01:52:16,178
- Who would judge it?
- I will.
637
01:52:22,702 --> 01:52:28,971
These are the maps you wanted. And I managed to locate some
material from yours and Burton's original expedition.
638
01:52:36,902 --> 01:52:42,374
- Is this Burton's report to the army?
- Yes, the one he wrote after you were both wounded.
639
01:52:42,582 --> 01:52:48,260
I thought this was destroyed.
Why wasn't I given this before?
640
01:52:48,463 --> 01:52:52,615
- I didn't think it was relevant.
- Burton is capable of using this!
641
01:52:52,823 --> 01:52:55,576
I asked to see everything
so I could be prepared.
642
01:52:55,783 --> 01:53:00,777
- Is there any difficulty here?
- Burton's old report. Have you read this?
643
01:53:05,103 --> 01:53:10,131
Yes, I remember very clearly reading it.
It deals mainly with finances.
644
01:53:10,343 --> 01:53:14,382
Did it discuss the battle?
645
01:53:14,583 --> 01:53:20,657
Only in so far as... Burton took responsibility
for not being adequately prepared.
646
01:53:20,862 --> 01:53:24,457
Nothing about me?
647
01:53:24,662 --> 01:53:30,135
As I recall, he gave you credit
for saving his life.
648
01:53:32,263 --> 01:53:35,335
But surely you knew all about this?
649
01:53:35,543 --> 01:53:39,422
Yes. I am simply trying to be thorough.
650
01:53:58,863 --> 01:54:03,539
John, the turnout for tomorrow is amazing.
Journalists coming from all over the country.
651
01:54:03,743 --> 01:54:06,052
You lied to me, Larry.
652
01:54:06,263 --> 01:54:09,653
I always lie
my way to the truth.
653
01:54:19,024 --> 01:54:22,539
Today is really a formality.
654
01:54:22,744 --> 01:54:26,099
The actual debate is tomorrow.
655
01:54:30,183 --> 01:54:32,572
Shall we?
656
01:54:43,663 --> 01:54:45,699
Hello, Jack.
657
01:54:49,343 --> 01:54:51,857
Burton.
658
01:54:52,063 --> 01:54:56,342
Sir! Master Speke! Am I to come inside
with all these top hats?
659
01:54:56,544 --> 01:55:00,332
No, It's a lovely day.
Wait in the carriage.
660
01:55:00,544 --> 01:55:03,422
We'll go hunting.
661
01:55:08,264 --> 01:55:13,736
I would like to welcome the many learned and
esteemed scientists I see in our audience today.
662
01:55:13,944 --> 01:55:16,412
We are privileged indeed, to have you as our guests.
663
01:55:16,624 --> 01:55:21,982
I am sure you will all agree
that the discovery of the source of the Nile ...
664
01:55:22,184 --> 01:55:28,453
is the most exciting event for Geographers
since Columbus discovered America.
665
01:55:28,664 --> 01:55:35,899
Later today Captain Richard Burton will address the society on matters
not directly related to the forthcoming debate.
666
01:55:36,103 --> 01:55:41,701
And tomorrow we will commence with
Captain Burton's formal paper ...
667
01:55:41,904 --> 01:55:46,056
... to be followed after a short break
by one from John Hanning Speke.
668
01:55:46,264 --> 01:55:51,463
- I've put in my appearance.
My family excepts me.
- Of course, see you tomorrow.
669
01:55:53,944 --> 01:55:59,974
One note of apology, it is warm in here.
Perhaps by next year one of you scientists ...
670
01:56:00,184 --> 01:56:05,212
will have focussed your researches on
the neglected study of ventilation.
671
01:56:10,144 --> 01:56:12,578
John?
672
01:56:12,784 --> 01:56:18,256
- I feel I can call you John.
- Of course.
673
01:56:18,464 --> 01:56:21,343
I know who you are.
674
01:56:24,465 --> 01:56:29,459
- Surprising, isn't it, that
we have never met?
- Yes.
675
01:56:35,585 --> 01:56:37,860
Excuse me, Madam,
my carriage is just outside.
676
01:56:38,065 --> 01:56:44,663
- Did you really want this debate?
- Why not? - It is the last thing Richard wants.
- Yes.
677
01:56:44,864 --> 01:56:49,176
I suppose he dreads the outcome.
678
01:56:49,384 --> 01:56:53,172
No. He knows ...
679
01:56:53,384 --> 01:56:57,377
that you are incapable of assembling the proofs
of your argument and that you'll lose.
680
01:56:57,584 --> 01:57:01,293
I'm sorry,
I can't discuss this.
681
01:57:01,504 --> 01:57:05,293
No one, not even myself knows
what you went through together.
682
01:57:05,505 --> 01:57:10,625
Those people in there, they don't no know and they don't care.
They need you as adversaries. But Richard doesn't.
683
01:57:11,025 --> 01:57:15,815
- Then why is he here?
- He will cancel tomorrow.
684
01:57:16,025 --> 01:57:22,976
He knows no truth will emerge
and in the absence of truth,
he respects only one thing.
685
01:57:24,665 --> 01:57:26,815
He respects loyalty.
686
01:57:31,905 --> 01:57:35,181
John, he respects you.
687
01:57:48,425 --> 01:57:51,815
Trouble with the dogs is,
they got no manners no more.
688
01:57:52,025 --> 01:57:56,382
Comes from being idle.
689
01:57:58,465 --> 01:58:02,617
Glad you've come to
straighten him out, sir.
690
01:58:07,265 --> 01:58:10,701
I've heard an Englishman say this:
691
01:58:10,905 --> 01:58:15,183
"The black man is indolent,
lazy by nature."
692
01:58:15,385 --> 01:58:19,981
"He drinks his beer at sunrise
and sleeps all day." Well, perhaps.
693
01:58:21,705 --> 01:58:24,936
It can be 120 degrees at the Equator.
694
01:58:25,145 --> 01:58:29,219
That man is consumed with
the same daily tasks.
695
01:58:29,426 --> 01:58:33,214
Let's say gathering food,
gathering wood.
696
01:58:33,426 --> 01:58:39,865
He does it with primitive tools
till sundown.
697
01:58:40,066 --> 01:58:43,103
And then he dances ...
698
01:58:43,306 --> 01:58:46,503
he tells stories.
699
01:58:46,706 --> 01:58:50,699
"What does he accomplish?"
asks the Englishman.
700
01:58:50,906 --> 01:58:55,740
What does the Englishman accomplish
if he mines coal all day ...
701
01:58:55,945 --> 01:58:59,176
sips his beer at night
and then succumbs to fatigue?
702
01:58:59,385 --> 01:59:03,264
Failing to make love
and then forgets how ...
703
01:59:05,545 --> 01:59:09,697
If my travels, if my books
have meaning ...
704
01:59:09,905 --> 01:59:13,501
If Geography itself
has significance ...
705
01:59:13,706 --> 01:59:19,099
It is that we are made to lift our eyes
from our own small provincial selves ...
706
01:59:19,306 --> 01:59:25,142
... to the whole complex
and magnificent world.
707
01:59:28,986 --> 01:59:31,705
Excellent.
708
02:00:54,027 --> 02:01:00,216
The question today is a serious question.
I maintain that question remained unanswered.
709
02:01:00,427 --> 02:01:06,297
Science demands articulate readings.
Exhaustive enquiry.
710
02:01:06,507 --> 02:01:12,422
Which of these lakes is the true source of the Nile?
I maintain that the evidence we have is still incomplete.
711
02:01:12,626 --> 02:01:16,460
My opponent's maps are at best
vague, sometimes insufficient.
712
02:01:16,666 --> 02:01:23,505
It's even possible that the lakes interconnect.
This should be evaluated after the monsoon.
713
02:01:31,707 --> 02:01:34,983
John Hanning Speke ...
714
02:01:35,187 --> 02:01:39,578
was killed yesterday afternoon
in a hunting accident.
715
02:01:45,227 --> 02:01:49,106
I would like to suggest. I would ask ...
716
02:01:49,307 --> 02:01:53,698
... that Mr. Burton
continue his lecture.
717
02:02:09,708 --> 02:02:13,496
Which lake is the source?
718
02:02:13,708 --> 02:02:16,905
Or is it a basin of lakes?
719
02:02:19,027 --> 02:02:23,020
My conclusions draw me
to the latter.
720
02:02:23,227 --> 02:02:27,903
The evidence of which is
gathered by myself ...
721
02:02:28,107 --> 02:02:31,622
and John Hanning Speke ...
722
02:02:31,827 --> 02:02:35,103
on our initial expedition.
723
02:02:38,867 --> 02:02:42,223
John went back.
724
02:02:49,028 --> 02:02:51,496
Jack...
725
02:02:51,708 --> 02:02:54,176
returned.
726
02:03:14,028 --> 02:03:19,705
What do you think sir?
Was it an accident or suicide?
727
02:03:19,908 --> 02:03:24,538
Please make a statement, sir.
He's very distressed.
728
02:03:24,748 --> 02:03:28,536
Mr. Oliphant, you are his personal friend.
Would you like to make a statement?
729
02:03:28,748 --> 02:03:31,421
What will you do now?
730
02:03:31,628 --> 02:03:36,827
You've killed him, Burton. You're a fool.
Your life is over. You'll never go back to Africa.
731
02:03:37,028 --> 02:03:43,706
You're a bureaucrat now.
They'll write 'murder'. I'll see to that.
732
02:03:43,908 --> 02:03:47,503
It's not what they write,
Oliphant.
733
02:03:47,708 --> 02:03:51,178
It's never what they write.
734
02:04:00,028 --> 02:04:02,667
He's dead, too.
735
02:04:19,229 --> 02:04:24,906
- Might I speak to your husband?
- I am sorry, he's packing, We're leaving for Brazil.
736
02:04:25,109 --> 02:04:29,341
- On holiday?
- No, he is to assume the Consulate there.
- It is alright, Isabel.
737
02:04:36,548 --> 02:04:40,427
Edgar Papworth. I am a sculptor.
I've been commissioned to ...
738
02:04:40,628 --> 02:04:44,303
- I've seen your work.
- Oh, really?
739
02:04:44,508 --> 02:04:48,217
As you see, a bust would be impossible.
I haven't got the time.
740
02:04:48,428 --> 02:04:54,026
It isn't that. I have been commissioned
by the Speke family.
741
02:04:56,069 --> 02:04:59,698
I wasn't even asked my price,
but it happens sometimes.
742
02:05:01,829 --> 02:05:05,617
I just made a copy of
his death mask.
743
02:05:05,829 --> 02:05:11,745
I never saw the man in life. And what
happens in death is, well, some distortion.
744
02:05:11,949 --> 02:05:15,305
The eyes were closed, of course.
745
02:05:18,029 --> 02:05:23,899
You knew him intimately. I was wondering, could you
make any suggestions? The clay is soft ...
746
02:05:24,109 --> 02:05:28,899
Excuse me, my husband and Mr. Speke
had not seen each other for many years ...
747
02:05:29,109 --> 02:05:32,897
... until recently,
and then only for a moment.
748
02:05:34,630 --> 02:05:38,862
No, it isn't right.
749
02:05:39,070 --> 02:05:41,583
There's too much here.
750
02:05:49,029 --> 02:05:52,624
I see. It wasn't strong enough.
751
02:05:52,829 --> 02:05:56,344
The cheekbones, mouth ...
752
02:05:58,549 --> 02:06:02,144
Yes, there.
753
02:06:03,429 --> 02:06:06,899
Is that what he looked like?
754
02:06:07,549 --> 02:06:14,500
Yes, that's it.
That's Speke.
755
02:06:15,389 --> 02:06:19,144
Thank you.
756
02:06:24,310 --> 02:06:28,019
I... wouldn't have intruded.
757
02:06:28,230 --> 02:06:33,099
I understood they weren't that close.
Newspapers.
758
02:06:33,310 --> 02:06:37,019
They were friends.
759
02:06:50,029 --> 02:06:53,101
Richard, are you ready?
760
02:06:53,309 --> 02:06:56,187
Of course, I am.
761
02:07:09,630 --> 02:07:15,421
Isabel and Burton was married for 30 years.
One never saw them apart in public.
762
02:07:15,670 --> 02:07:20,539
David Livingstone died during an expedition,
while searching for the Nile's source.
763
02:07:20,790 --> 02:07:29,744
John Hanning Speke was right.
Lake Victoria was indeed the source of the Nile,
which was established 12 years after his death.
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