"Swedish Radio presents" "Villervalle in the South Pacific" "Episode 9 The Copra Island" "...nutriton is still very uncertain." "Well." "Err... read aloud the last thing you wrote." "Whether any higher correlation coefficient can really be demonstrated... that concerns the 3 above mentioned subjects, between general fitness and nutrition is still very uncertain." "Err, still very uncertain, yes." "Well, it seems rather doubtful to me... whether anyone at the Public Health Institute will really understand what you mean." "It couldn't be easier." "I mean only that it's somewhat uncertain whether Toukurangis and Mavus's indigestion... really depends on their eating habits." "But if that's what you mean, why don't you say it?" "Where was I, now?" "Okay." "The experiment was conditioned, however..." "What's happening?" "They're running, during siesta time." "Villervalle!" "Villervalle, you understand the local language, scurry down to the beach and see what's happening!" "Villervalle!" "Huh!" "He's sleeping." " Villervalle!" "Wake up!" " What is it?" "We need an experienced detective to help solve a mystery." "A detective?" "Where's the evidence." "Evidence." "They're collecting it right now on the beach." "So scurry down and see what they're up to." "Okay, Boss." "And hey, take no prisoners until you've consulted with me." "Ouch!" ""With the warmest greetings from the South Seas in chilly winter."" ""Yours sincerely", and then my name." "Now don't write, "yours severely" this time." "Well, have you solved the mystery?" "Sure, Boss." "The villagers have decided to travel over to the other side of the lagoon to make copra." "It was surprising, how suddenly it came on." "I asked chief Toukorangi last night when they would start making copra, and he said it was impossible to give any definite answer." "He probably told the truth." "Someone in the village suddenly gets the idea that it's the right time and dashes off." "Everyone drops what they're doing and immediately follow him." "But can't we go with them, Ernst?" "You've always said, that it would be so interesting to see how they make copra." "Well, it's also just a bit sudden." " Dad!" " Let's go too, all of us!" "Yes, I've said several times, that it would be interesting... to follow the natives' lives completely." "Well, what do you say about going to the school of life for a while, for a change?" "Yes, but we have to hurry, otherwise the canoe will leave without us!" "Yes, that's right, then we'll have to get moving." " Yes." " Ernst!" "Calm down a bit now." "First, we bring in all the things that can't be left outdoors." "Villervalle!" "Come here and help." "Grandma!" "You can..." "You take the other chair, then." "But the canoes, they..." "No." "After a couple hours of canoeing we arrived at the island across the lagoon, where the Raroians make copra." "We'll stay here at least a month to produce copra." "It looks as if they plan to live quite comfortably, but the only equipment they have with them are knives, spears and loincloths." "We haven't much stuff with us either." "So Mom and Dad are beginning to wonder, how this adventure will end." "Well, they apparently mean that we're going to stay here." "But we can't sleep under the open sky for several weeks." "If our Raroia friends can do it, then we can too." "Ouch, oh!" "Yes, luckily we have our rain gear with us." "And then we can always make little, comfortable grass beds to sleep on." "Ouch!" "Well, I for one,would probably prefer a slightly more well-furnished apartment." "To build a palm hut is demanding precision work." "It's important to have a good eye, like Tetohu." "Oh yes, Dad's foot survives by a millimeter." "All work is divided efficiently and rationally." "Weaving palm leaves is a job for women, of course." "Please watch out, Dad!" "There!" "Dad's eye for measurement is of course not as good as Tetohu's." "Yes." "It's good, eh!" " Isn't it meal time soon?" " Well, it probably is." "But have you already forgotten that we don't have any food with us?" "We get to eat with the natives, so we'll just have to wait until they get hungry." "So long!" "Finally food!" "Kaoko and Popino have harpooned fish on the reef." "The fish are placed uncleaned directly on the red-hot stones." "It almost feels like you've been transported to ancient times." "Yes, the natives had no canned goods or other things to use." "And no iron tools or other modern stuff either." "No, it probably wasn't always easy." "Cooking was apparently not a major problem for them." "I wonder how they made a fire in the past." "It was so very simple." "They just rubbed two sticks together." "Like this!" "That would be good exercise for you, when you light your pipe." "It's important to tap with just enough strength, so... the shavings that collect in the groove don't smother the embers." "The natives have nowadays gone over to using Swedish matches." "Jönköping is better known than Stockholm in the South Pacific." "Though they have a little trouble with pronunciation." "The fish!" "It's a shame." "They're completely charred." "Tetohu gave orders that all the fish were to be thrown into the sea." "But it wasn't because they were charred, but because they'd absorb some salt water and become more palatable." "Well, it's a common way to salt the food down here." "It... it's good, this." "Yes, it's really delicious to eat roast coral fish." "It would taste wonderful." "A coconut with fresh coconut water." "Yikes!" "I dare not climb higher!" "Get your lovely fresh coconuts here!" "Only 25 cents each or five for a krona!" "Only 25 cents each." " Five from a krona." " Not "from", "for" a krona." "Lovely fresh coconuts." "Only 25 cents each or..." "Five for a krona!" "Lovely fresh South Sea nuts." "Only 25 cents each." " Five for...!" " Shh!" "Will you come down right now." "Should I jump down, then?" "Ernst..." "Climbing up was easy, but coming down again..." "Ouch!" "Ow..." "Careful, Villervalle." "But just look at yourself!" "Look, Ernst!" "Well, what were you doing up in the palm tree?" "There." "Now you're coming home with me and rest." "If we have a home." "It's actually a really nifty home, I think." "Yes, and we didn't need to be on any waiting list, either." "The only drawback is that we have to crawl around on all fours." "Villervalle!" "That's all for today!" "What?" "Do I have go to bed before it's dark?" "Aah!" "Yes, you probably need to rest for a while." "As you can see, it's not so easy in the school of life either." "Don't worry, Dad." "I like this type of primary school." "Go on, march, inside and lie down!" "Ouch!" "I can't lie down with these sores you guys!" "Episode 10 The Ghost Pits" "The mature coconuts fall down by themselves, and are collected by the women with a spiked stick." "The nuts are split in half with an axe, and the sun dries the white meat inside." "3,756." "3,757." "Hey Dad, it's harder than I thought to make copra." "Well, we must be grateful the nuts fall down by themselves, when they become mature, so we don't have to climb up and retrieve them." " What?" "Are you giving up, you slacker?" " I'm not." "3,758." "3,759." "Just a few million left." " Hey, Kaoko!" " Hey, Villervalle!" "Hello there!" "Yes, you can do it that way, too." "He says it's time to take the copra out of the nuts... that we harvested last week on the other side of the island." "Okay." "Yes." "Look!" "Sjussov's map!" "What are you talking about?" "Well, atomic spies, the Sjussov's, who were on the schooner when we came here." "They had an old map." "And there was a boulder, it looked like an old man." "Just like that rock." "Oh, come on now, try someone else this time, eh." "He says that pit ghosts live there." "Hey, do you remember?" "When we celebrated St. Lucia in the village, yes." "We almost scared the chief and all his family to death." "But you're not afraid, are you?" " Me?" "Afraid?" "Kaoko!" "Villervalle!" "Come and help here!" "Just dig out the meat from the nut like this." "Then the copra is finished." "Here, have yourself a knife." "Have yourself a nut." "What a thrill, eh?" "I hope there isn't some sputnik up there with a bunch of tv cameras on board." "If Nisse and the other guys at school got to see what I'm doing now," "I'd never hear the end of it when I got home." "The guys, who think that I'm experiencing lots of adventures... with pirates and cannibals and sharks all the time." "Copra!" "Who cares?" "Don't give up hope, Villervalle." "You've already caught a couple of individuals, who could almost be atomic spies." "I think I recognize this smell from somewhere at home in Stockholm." "It's very possible." "The margarine factory, you go past every day on the way to school, imports tons of copra." "They don't just make margarine from copra, they make soap too." "I'll never be able to wash myself without being aware of the copra smell and retching." "If you're only aware of the smell when you wash, you won't get sick very often." "The finished copra is placed in bags and sent over to Raroia in canoes, while waiting for a schooner to come that'll take the copra to Tahiti." "What is it?" "What are they shouting about?" "I don't know." "Villervalle, what is it?" "They say a schooner is heading towards the village." "But if we don't hurry, the canoes will leave without us." " What is it?" " Well, hurry up then!" "A week later Uncle Bengt Danielsson arrived with another schooner." "I'm glad to see that you're still alive, everyone." "You seem surprised." "Not what you were expecting, eh?" "Welcome to Raroia." "Thank you, Ernst." "Villervalle, Lenalisa..." "As you can see, I have with me both mail and groceries." "It's really been long-awaited." "Well, then let's go home." "But wait with that, Villervalle." "Yes, this is a difficult dilemma." "Shall we start with the spiritual or the corporeal food?" "What a silly question!" "Yes, you're right, Villervalle." "So we'll begin with the mail sack." "Here we have a letter for you, Mother." "Aunt Agda." "One to Villervalle." "French Polynesia is written on the stamp." "Maybe it's from Villervalle's atomic spies, whom he wrapped up on the ship." "Those atomic spies, Bengt, have you heard anything new about them?" "Indeed, I've heard a lot about them." "In a way, Villervalle was right, because they actually tried to hide something from all of us." "There, you see!" "Next time I catch a few atomic spies," "I hope you'll help me instead of laughing at me." "Wait a minute, Villervalle." "They're not a couple of atomic spies at all." "What they've tried to hide from us is simply that they're looking for a treasure." "A treasure?" "What treasure?" "It's a Peruvian gold treasure from a famous monastery in Lima." "During the war of independence against the Spaniards in the 1820s, the monks became worried that all their precious gold objects would be seized." "So they had them secretly brought aboard a schooner." "The captain, who was sworn to secrecy, was commissioned to sail over here to the Tuamotu group, and bury the treasure on some of the islands here." "Which he did." "On an island with a giant rock, which looks like an old man's head?" "I don't know anything about that." "Where did you get that from?" "In any case, the ship was wrecked during the return journey, and the entire crew perished." "The monks clearly didn't know themselves, where the captain had buried their gold treasure, for they searched for a long time afterwards on the islands." "Did they find it?" "We know nothing about it." "But that's why there's stories here, about men in long white hoods, digging pits." "And the events took place so long ago, the monks of the natives' imagination often turned into ghosts." "Pit ghosts?" "Yes, one could call them that." "Here is a correspondence letter." "Well." "They've had bad weather at home this summer again." "Oh, what fun!" "Katja has been given a foal." "This is from Nisse to Villervalle somewhere in the South Pacific via Papeete." "Has he disappeared?" "There's that high, lonely palm tree which Kaoko talked about." "They've got to be here somewhere... those ghost pits." "Argh!" "A coconut crab!" "It has claws that can cut off a finger or toe in a snap." "No, Ernst, he must have had an accident." "We shouldn't draw any hasty conclusions." "Perhaps he's only at Kaoko's overnight." "Although he hasn't asked for permission." "Do you know where I think he is?" "On Copra island." "Why?" "He might be looking for that treasure, that Uncle Bengt talked about yesterday." "Then we'll go there straight away, Ernst." "This is a man's job." "Go get Bengt and get ready yourself." "I'll take charge." "There's Villervalle's canoe!" "What's up with them?" "They say that there are a couple of ghost pits here." "Ghost pits?" "Pit ghosts?" "Yes, I think I've heard of them before." "But surely those big strong men aren't afraid of ghosts in broad daylight?" " Yes, they are." " Kaoko's not afraid." "Kaoko!" " Well, we can do without them." " Yes, come along!" "Where did the old woman go?" "Help!" "Help!" "Help!" "Help!" "Villervalle." "Is it really you, Villervalle?" "Well, do you think ghosts here can speak Swedish?" " Wait now, and we'll soon get you up." " I'll jump down." "Yes" "Look out, Villervalle, here I come!" "Hey Ernst!" "Help me out of the pit now!" "Oh yes." "Wait, I'll run down to the canoe and get some long rope or something." "Hey Ernst!" "We've forgotten Grandma." "Take the opportunity to make sure she's not in any of these pits too." "Yes, how did we manage to forget her?" " You stay here." " Well, what else can I do." "Hello!" "Mother!" "Hello!" "Have you seen what's here at the bottom?" "Well, I've had plenty of time to look." "It must be here that the monks gold treasure was buried." "I just wonder if it was them themselves or some others who dug it up again." "What's so funny?" "I was thinking of Sjussov looking on the wrong island, for a treasure which no longer exists." "Hey, Grandma!" "Now, you'll soon be up, Bengt." " Hey, Bengt!" " Hello!" "How was your pit, then?" "As nice and comfortable as in yours." "It can't be fun to be a ghost on this island." "I actually found a chest in my pit." "Where's the pit?" "Now leave all treasure searching to Bengt and me." "What a treasure!" "Help me with the rope, Ernst!" " Pull!" " Okay." "Put your weight into it, because it's heavy." "Lift, lift, lift!" "More, more!" "Now you've forgotten me again, Ernst!" "Put your weight into it, Dad!" "Yes, coming." "Now." "It's empty!" "Down with it again." "No, stop!" "The chest is mine and it's certainly a fine antique." " You and your antiques!" " You just have to carry it home." "Well, now we could really use those guys who are afraid of ghosts." "Wretched wimps!" "Say, Uncle Bengt, what sound do ghosts make here in the South Pacific?" "They howl like sick dogs." "Take the strain, again." "The canoes!" "Well... well, how will we get home?" "We'll just have to walk around the island." " 5 km." " Yes." "My schooner unfortunately won't wait." "Forward march!" "Episode 11 Turtle Hunting" "Well, it's a geography lesson." "If you do as well as the other homework, you'll get the rest of the day off." "Eskimos live in Greenland, where they subsist entirely on hunting and fishing." "They live in small houses, called igloos, which they build out of blocks of snow." "They have small canoes, covered with sealskin, called kayaks." "They live on seal blubber and whale oil and therefore over time become quite obese." "No, it's geography now." "Gustav II Adolf was the one, who became that. (obese)" "I mean that they become fat, which protects them against the strong cold." "Thank you for this time." "Bye!" "I think I'd rather sit in Greenland... and interrogate someone about the South Seas on a day like this." "It's only 38 degrees today." "Look, what Villervalle has accomplished." "Yeah, I think he's been doing his homework a little too well the last week." "I'm starting to get suspicious." "Probably he wants some new thing again, and is trying to soften me up." "Well, if he continues to be this good then I really think he's worthy of a proper reward." "Sad, sad beyond measure." "But you seem to have already fallen into his trap." "It's not so strange that he can do his homework." "He's sitting still from morning to evening every day." "He sits still?" "It has only happened twice, as I can remember." "And both times he was sick." "It's best that you examine him, Ernst." "He sits still just because he's looking for turtles with Kaoko." "Turtles?" "Where are they?" "In the sea." "Turtle season has just begun." "This time of year, sea turtles usually come closer to shore to mate." "Where are you going?" "I'll have another look at the century's greatest natural wonders." "Villervalle sitting still." " I think I'll go with you." " Yes, I have to see." "(Repeating from a textbook)" "It wasn't quite as I thought, Lenalisa was joking." "(Repeating from a textbook)" "Hey, look there!" "Villervalle!" "Yes, what is it?" "Nothing, we certainly don't want to disturb you." "It's a pity that it's not turtle season all year round." "Turtle hunters catch turtles, or tifai as the natives call them, with this kind of hook, but also with their bare hands." "For several days, they've patiently waited for the turtles to appear." "Kaoko and me, also sit on watch and look eagerly for the tifai." "Tifai !" "Tifai!" "Tetohu stays behind the turtle, so it doesn't bite into his arm and pull him down into the depths." "The turtle hunt always ends with a huge party, where they also perform this turtle dance." "Today it's Kaoko who has the lead role, and it's him crawling around with the turtle shell on his back." "The turtle party was also a farewell party for us, for, sadly, it was already time to go home to Stockholm again." "Wait!" "It might go by without anyone noticing." "Do you think so?" "If only you'd organized the packing in a more rational way, you'd have escaped having this last minute panic." "Yes, you've really made it easy for yourself by losing a lot of things." "What have you done with your last briefcase, for example?" "Briefcase?" "Here is where you put it." "Oh, yes, there it is." "Is that Villervalle now, causing trouble again?" "No, oddly enough, it doesn't seem that Villervalle is involved." "But it seems to be Toukurangi who has a disagreement with some from the schooner." "I'm going to..." "Ernst!" "Ernst!" "What is it?" "What are they saying?" "Ernst!" "People from Takotu are here with the schooner." "I've heard that people from Takotu and Raroia were... mortal enemies in ancient times." "And it still happens, that they get into fights with each other." "Just for old times' sake." "Do you think it could become serious?" "Yes, it could kick off at anytime, unless we can find some diversion." "Hey, do you remember that monk on that island, who used to organize football matches, when there was trouble?" "Yeah." "Villervalle!" "Where have you been, anyway?" "Run and get the football!" " Football?" " Football, yes." "Do you need my help?" "We've found a better solution than the threat of armed intervention." "It's always a very poor method, Mother." "The football is unfortunately a bit broken." "Maybe it's just as good with this?" "We're at the Raroia football stadium." "The match between Raroia and Takotu has just begun." "Raroia attacks." "Maoko passes to Tetohu who passes to Tiaho." "Maoko breaks hard and firm but the referee has the match in hand, and blows the conch for all rough tackles." "This is a match that Raroia spectators have long been waiting for." "Raroia attacks again." "Tetohu passes to Teoti." "Ouch, he works hard, fighting and struggling." "Taiko attacks, passing to the forward, to the right winger, to the center, tackle." "Goal!" "Goal!" "Takotu lead 1-0." "Raroia goes directly onto the attack." "Maoko is tackled, oh oh, what a foul!" "There must be a penalty." "Tetohu composes himself." "What a penalty!" "The globe got stuck on his foot." "What do we do now, then?" "Well, we'll just have to find some other sport." "I know!" "Well, we decided to arrange a tetrathlon between Takotu and Raroia." "The score after the first event, football, or as it's called in Tuamotu, tuparaa pupu, which really means inflated balloon, was 1-0 to Takotu." "The next event is the javelin, or as it's called in Tuamotu, pakiara fa." "Participants throw spears at a coconut target, which sits impaled on a high 10 meter pole." "Every man has three spears." "The score after two events:" "5 points to Raroia and 4 to Takotu." "Amoraa teiaha or log toss, is the third event." "Here, Raroia has a couple of really sturdy guys." "Tahii, Maopo and of course the team's anchor, Tetohu." "Raroia incidentally has a palm leaf around the head as identification mark." "Club uniforms aren't used in the South Pacific." "This looks threatening for Raroia, because the Takotu team also has some real heavyweights." "But we have of course as last man, Tetohu." "But what happened to Tetohu?" "We must ensure that Tetohu stays in shape for the sack race." "It's the last event." "Couldn't you give him an elixir injection, or whatever it's called?" "I'm glad that you have such a high opinion of my ability." "To cure a muscle strain in minutes, is impossible even for me." "It was in any case, four points for Raroia and three for Takotu." "It all depends on what will happen in the last event, the relay sack race, or as it's called in Tuamotu, hororaa pute." "You have to finish the race." "It doesn't matter." "I'm still last, and somehow, I sprained my foot." "Leave rationalizations until afterwards." "The Raroia team lacks only one point for it to be a draw." "Crawl if you're unable to jump!" " That's right." "Up!" "Such cheers!" "And yet it was only a draw." "I wonder how it would have been, if Raroia had won." "Episode 12 Pearl Divers" "Tetohu gives us the first lesson in pearl diving." "Is this lead weight, the canoes anchor?" "No, how dumb you are." "It's so you can go quickly down to the bottom." "He says he has it just so he doesn't cut himself on the mussels." "It's the basket for collecting mussels in." "Yabadabadoo!" "Hey, stop screaming." "What are you up to?" " Diving for pearls." " Pearls?" "Just pearls, or pearl mussels." "We intend to accompany Tetohu and Kaoko to Takume, when the pearl fishing season begins next week." "That's out of the question." "What do you think Mom would say?" "Yes, what do you think, Dad?" "But Dad, just think what good information... we can provide about the divers eating habits and stuff." "Well, Tetohu does look powerfully built." "I wonder if the divers... have special eating habits." "Ask him about it, Villervalle." "Well, he says he doesn't know what food he'll get until he goes to Takume." "Therefore, it's probably best, Dad, that we go with them and find out for you." "Hey, I'm not falling for that trick." "Neither your Mom nor I intend to leave you alone." "You seem to have forgotten, Ernst," "I managed quite well alone, long before you existed." "In any case, it will be as I say." "Don't forget that you should be in Tahiti before July 25th, when the ship to Europe leaves." "Bye!" "We'll see you in Tahiti!" "Yes, don't forget to read your homework properly!" "Trust us!" "Takume is also a coral island, like Raroia, but somewhat smaller." "It's one of the few islands where there are plenty of pearl mussels." "And at this time of year there's usually a lot of natives, from other islands diving for mussels." "They say that we're welcome to Takume." "But look, what a cute little piggy." "But I don't suppose you root out much with that snout on Takume, eh?" "Teie po hohoa arearea." "I'll see it tonight." "But they've got the Grand Hotel." "Ho ho!" "There's somebody under the bed." "Hey, Monsieur Moule!" "Ah...!" "Ouch!" "Ah!" "This my friend from Raroia." "Welcome to Takume." "This is my hotel." "You can sleep here." "Yeah!" "Better to sleep there." "Thank you, thank you, I prefer to sleep on the floor." " He says, that the divers have come." " Come on!" "Monsieur Moule..." "Monsieur Moule, what's this place?" "An old church which has been destroyed by a cyclone." "What is the difference between a storm and a cyclone?" "Storms go in a straight line." "Watch out for cyclones, eh?" " Good!" " No good." "Good, good" " Oh..." " Good." " This one no good?" " No good!" " Oh, so lovely." "How beautiful!" "This is a coral that has grown attached to the pearl mussel." "But where are all the pearls?" "He told me, that it's very rarely they find pearls in mussels nowadays." "They don't leave them long enough." "But the mussels are worth a lot of money anyway." "Because all over Europe and America, they make buttons and brooches from mother of pearl shells." "You can get up to 5 Swedish kronor per kilogram." "What a lot of money they must earn!" "Speaking of dough, Grandma, did Dad give you any money before we left?" "No, he forgot of course." "And me too." "Everything went so fast." "But we don't need to stay at nice hotels." "We can sleep under the trees." "But how do we get back to Tahiti?" "I doubt that we can travel as stowaways." "How silly you are." "The entire lagoon's full of mussels, which anyone can pick up." "Before we leave here, we'll be so rich that we can buy a whole schooner." "Trust me!" "Tetohu and the other pearl divers, can dive down to 40 meters depth to pick up mussels." "And they can stay under water for more than 3 minutes." "Tetohu was not the slightest bit afraid of sharks, either." "He says that one should just swim straight towards them." "128, 129, 130..." "So much longer than I could stay under, of course." "He releases air slowly during the ascent to equalize the pressure in his lungs." "I don't want to clean mussels." "Yahoo!" "Yahoo!" "It feels as if my head would burst." "Oh!" "I think..." "I think I..." "How... how deep!" "7 meters." "And you dive?" "I begin 10 meters already." "I will help you clean it." "Oh yeah, I need more than one lesson to be a mother of pearl diver." "Anyway, it's great fun to clean mussels." "What?" "Is that your bag?" "How many mussels are there?" "No, this is my bag." "So it's probably best we hold a family council." "Yes, it probably is." "Come on!" "Well, try to curb your imagination a little, Villervalle." "Hey Grandma, Monsieur Moule can probably lend us some money." "It's against my principles to borrow." "I'd rather sell my rifle." "No, you mustn't do it." "There's sure to be something else we can sell." "Hey, that's right!" "And you know what?" "No, what?" "A lot of our surplus food." "Yeah!" "We'll open a shop." "Family council is concluded." "We have during the first day of the experiment, noticed a great fondness for tinned meat," "Villervalle!" "Here comes a customer." "Hey, this Tarzan we'll test cabbage rolls on, eh?" " We'll do that." " Err... wait a minute." "Well, what?" "We earn money." "And we'll help Dad with his nutritional studies." " What do you say about him, then?" " Absolutely positive reaction. 8 plus points." "Take payment, Grandma." "It's quite fun to do science, I think." "And quite profitable, too." "We've already made 6,000 francs at the checkout." "We'd have earned even more if Villervalle hadn't eaten so much of the inventory." "Have I?" "You have to taste it." "We'll close for tonight." "And from tomorrow you'll start reading again, and this time properly." "That's the thanks for performing groundbreaking research." "What?" "Are the church bells ringing?" " It's Sunday." " You dope, it's Thursday." "And all the divers are still out on the lagoon." "Could something have happened?" "Come on!" "There's a storm coming, so he must warn the divers." "But the sun is shining." "It's very quiet and still." "He says that whenever his big left big toe aches, it becomes stormy." "And therefore he calls home the divers." "Do you really believe Monsieur Moules fantasies?" "Yes I do." "There's nothing more reliable than old man toe barometers." "So hurry up and pack up!" "Monsieur Moule is an old fox, who knows what he's talking about." "So let's close the shop immediately." "Hurry and pack up and go straight to the hotel." "You're supposed to pack a box, not your stomach." "If there's bad weather, you never know what could happen with the supplies." "Monsieur Moule!" "He keeps on banging and breaking apart the hotel." "He says he's building a raft of the veranda." "There might be a big tidal wave, that washes over the coral island as if Takume was nothing." "But can't you climb up into the palm trees?" "He says that if the wind is strong, then the palm trees will break." "So it's probably safest to stay on his raft." "It's probably safest then." "Okay, so long, Grandma." "We're going down to the beach." "Bye, then!" "And to think, once when I camped out with Nisse," "I declined an entire bottle of soda." " No, that's what I imagined I was dreaming." " What?" "I heard the roar of a great waterfall, just full of clear drinking water." "Shape up now." "We can probably rig up a sail of loin cloth, if everyone would help out a little." "At last!" "Hey, what are you doing?" "I'm going to throw all the correspondence letters and homework books overboard." " But we still need them." " For what?" "Correspondence letters to make sun hats out of, and homework books to burn if we run into land sometime." "Change over with Lenalisa at the sail, Villervalle." "Aye, aye, Captain." "Just think, if we're saved!" "I'm going to eat so much cabbage rolls and meatballs, pancakes and brown beans and pea soup, and hot dogs with a thick, thick layer of mustard." "Stop now!" "If you'd put your fish hooks in a more sensible place than in the box with canned meatballs, then we'd have been able to get lots of fish." "And if you drink fish blood, then you don't need any water." "Sure, Grandma!" "But if you'd saved the meatball box instead of the cash drawer, we'd not be starving to death now." "Do you see!" "The birds are flying in the same direction with the horizon." "There must be an island there." "Set a new course!" "Aye, aye Captain!" "Land ahoy!" " Hey!" " Grab hold!" "Episode 13 Shipwrecked" "They're made only of flour and water, fills the belly." "Utterly useless from a nutritional physiological point of view." "Teao 8 dumplings, Tiniki 11, Konao 7." "7 dumplings." "What's happened?" "Is it about the children?" "Yes, it's from Takume." "There's apparently been a cyclone over the island." "Are they all right, then?" "Well, it's not clear, but it's clear that they've survived." "What should we do?" "Well, we must go to the telegraph office and try to get in touch with Takume." "Hello Takume, Monsieur Moule." "Reao, here." "Are you receiving me?" "This is Takume." "Monsieur Moule speaking." "Takume, calling Monsieur Moule." "Monsieur Botman wishes to speak to you." "Good." "Put him on." "Thank you" "Thanks." "Hello..." "Hello." " Hello, Monsieur Botman." " Hello, Monsieur Moule." "I'm listening." "He says Grandma and the children disappeared on a raft." "Disappeared?" "Where are they now?" "Yes..." "Yes." "The cyclone whipped up a giant wave that swept across the island." "Is there anyone who's died?" "I don't know, but Moule and our friends from Raroia seem to have coped." "They climbed onto the church roof and tall palm trees." "Yes." "Thank you, Monsieur Moule." "Thank you, Monsieur Botman, Goodbye." "Goodbye." "I'll get back to you." "Goodbye." "What do we do now?" "We should..." "We shouldn't worry ourselves." "The raft is very good and solid." "Monsieur Moule built it himself." "Out of a..." "Out of a veranda." "Veranda?" "Where can they be, do you think?" "The cyclone came roughly along this path." "So they're certainly somewhere on the Raroia, or maybe even further south on some of these smaller islands." "Or else they've missed all these islands and are on the way down to the Arctic Ocean." "Then it's paramount to get hold of a schooner that takes us from Reao to Raroia." "Thank you, Monsieur." "I wonder where we are." "I for one, am more curious to see if the island is inhabited." "Hello!" "Hello!" "Is there anybody home?" "It would seem that this island is uninhabited." "Perhaps we've even discovered a new island, which isn't on any chart." "We must hurry and take possession of it." "I hereby take possession, the discoverer, Vilhelm Valdemar." "What about me, then?" "It was me who saw it first." "I will take possession of it, for time immemorial for the Swedish Crown, and the government's behalf." "I name this island after me, the discoverer, Botmans land." "You fool!" "The first thing they'll do in Stockholm, when they learn of this, is to send over a taxman." "Hey Grandma, actually, I think we have to put a letter in a bottle and bury it in the ground somewhere." "So that our occupation is recognised by other powers." "But now we have no bottle, so let's do something useful instead." "Down with you from the palm tree!" "Get us some drinking nuts, then Lenalisa and I will find a place to build a hut." "Lenalisa, take the bag!" "Oh, that's good!" "Well, let's get started with the hut." "Get poles!" "Lie down, Grandma." "Lie down!" "One, two, three." "Three steps long and four paces broad." " Is that okay, Grandma?" " That will be fine." "What do you think about this, Grandma?" "It's fine, Villervalle." "Now we can handle ourselves." "Make a fire and then provide us with some fish." "Okay, Grandma." "No granny knots, Lenalisa, just reef knots." "Up with you, you slackers and come and compete with me in archery." "No, ugh, it's too hot." "No offense, Grandma, you're great, but I still miss the guys on Raroia." "Being on a deserted island isn't as fun as I thought." "You never said a truer word." "Oh, to be back on Raroia." "But now we're not on Raroia, lazy dogs!" "What, are you reading your homework?" "You haven't got sunstroke?" "You may not be so stupid after all." "In the absence of bread then you eat the loaf." "(Reading aloud from textbook)" "It's good like that." "It's enough like that." "They shouldn't eat too much in any case, if they're starving." "It's very important in all these contexts, that a scientifically accurate readjustment takes place." "Yeah, right." "Hurry up!" "Typical Villervalle!" "Yipee!" "Is it possible you're looking for us?" "Mom!" "Dad!" "Oh, how glad I am to see you!" "It's Robinson Crusoe himself, eh?" "How healthy and well-fed you're looking!" "What did you expect, really, eh?" "Tetohu!" "Dad, what happened to Monsieur Moule and the others on Takume when we disappeared?" "Moule and all our friends from Raroia survived." "Yes, we can talk about it later." "This way, if you will." "Look, Grandma!" "I'm practicing in case the cannibals come." "Your turn, Dad." " Is it me now?" "Right." " Like this, it's much easier." " Show us then!" "He's a tall cannibal, this one." " Are you throwing now, Ernst?" " Oh!" "Not bad for the first time." "You see the palm sprouts, eh?" "No, don't go up to them!" "Come here." "No, go around the palm tree!" "Around the palm." "Watch the palm sprouts now." "Look at them!" "What do you think about that, Dad?" "You see, the cannibals, they like coconut sprouts." "I hereby greet you, welcome to Botmans land." "Botmans land - conquered by Villervalle Belonging to Sweden" "It's really good for Swedish people, that we've finally got a vacation colony in the South Pacific." " Yes, and so close." " Just on the other side of the world." "Yes, there aren't that many rooms here, though." "Hey, the food is ready." "This way!" "Food?" "Hey, but so nice!" "Botman residence." "And a calendar." "Dad!" "Go to that rotten palm trunk 15 meters further away." "If the enemy comes." "Good, very good." "The food is ready!" "But how did you know we were coming today?" " You?" "The party isn't for you." " Isn't it?" " No, we're celebrating our graduation." " Graduation?" "Yes, Grandma gave us tests and we received top marks." "That's why we thought we'd celebrate with a little party." "To which we intend to invite all of you." "Won't you sit down!" "Hey, one doesn't sit down before the guests." "Here you are Mom, here Dad!" "Tetohu..." "Kaoko!" "And I thought you'd have to repeat a grade." " Repeat a grade?" " Yeah." "Hey, what might this be?" "Well, it's a sea urchin that we called pieviar." " Pieviar?" " Yes." "It tastes like a cross between caviar and cherry pie." "Yes, it does, actually." "Pieviar." " Pieviar." " Yes." "Dear Mother... dear children." "It's... it's hard to find words for what we... what we feel, now that you've been rescued." "But..." "But, this time it was all the rescuers who were afraid." "Well, so we're home again." "Yes, here I actually feel more at home than at home." "Yes, me too." "Please, let's stay another year or two." "Besides, You're not quite done with your studies, are you Dad?" "What?" "I'd certainly like to stay, too." "But my assignment for UNESCO has ended." "I can't be away any longer from my practice." ""The one you want, the other you should." So it goes in such cases." "Well, the schooner awaits." "Villervalle!" "Come on!" "Can't we stay another year?" "Think how cold it is back home in Sweden." "Just one more year, Dad." "No nonsense now, Jump on board now." "No!" "Villervalle!" "Tetohu... yabadabadoo!" "Subtitles by Faxeholm and Squashy Hat"