"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." "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?" "There's that high, lonely palm tree which Kaoko talked about." "They've got to be here somewhere..." "those ghost pits." "They say that there are a couple of ghost pits here." "Villervalle." "Is it really you, Villervalle?" "Well, do you think ghosts here can speak Swedish?" "It's empty!" "The canoes!" "Swedish Radio presents" "Villervalle in the South Pacific" "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." "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 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." "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." "Yes, and we'd have earned even more, if Villervalle hadn't eaten so much of the inventory." "Have I?" "You have to taste it." "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!" "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!" "Subtitles by Faxeholm and Squashy Hat"