:28:01
During the dry season, with
the water at its lowest level...
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...this is quite harmless.
:28:25
Kinski was a peculiar mixture of
physical cowardice and courage.
:28:32
A wasp nearby could cause him
to scream for his mosquito net...
:28:36
...and for a doctor with a syringe.
:28:40
I shall never forget one moment,
that was right here in the Pongo.
:28:46
We had managed to drag our
huge ship up to here, inch by inch...
:28:51
...against the current. The water
rises 30 feet higher here...
:28:58
...and then all hell breaks loose.
:29:01
Both to the right and left, we had
fastened 60 steel cables to the rock...
:29:07
...so that the boat was able
to pull itself up with the winches.
:29:11
All that took about eleven days...
:29:14
...just to pull the boat
half a mile into these rapids.
:29:19
Then something
unexpected happened.
:29:22
The water rose another 6 feet
and the 14 steel cables...
:29:26
...each with a diameter of 3 inches
were torn up with a single jerk.
:29:43
The boat capsized, laying
almost horizontally in the water.
:29:51
More bizarre, there was a pregnant
woman on board. The cook's wife.
:29:56
The cook in mortal fear...
:29:58
...looking for something vertical,
jumped on half a pig.