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FILMS, PRESS, AND RADIO ON THE EXPEDITION 



On Mindanao in 



the Philippines a colour film 



about pineapples was made. 



Film cameramen 



went through fire and water 



to get good results. 



From Victoria, 



British Cameroons. 



current or a struggle with an enemy might on occasion have brought the 

 giant eel into the surface levels, and the violent serpentine writhings 

 repeatedly described in the reports might conceivably be the creature's 

 death struggle before it finally descended into the perpetual darkness. 



This was the point at which my imagination was caught, and the result 

 of it all was that a few days later I volunteered my services on the deep- 

 sea expedition to come, and felt myself from then on increasingly caught 

 in its net, even before any of us had any idea whether it was likely to 

 emerge from our dreams and get a deck under its feet. For, though Dr. 

 Bruun's hypothesis about the giant eel might be proved incorrect, this 

 expedition would be exploring hitherto unknown depths. And what man 

 would not like to be on a modern voyage of discovery, one where the 

 lands waiting to be discovered lay under the ship's keel instead of westward 

 of her bows? Even though the sea serpent escaped our hook, there was 

 still a prospect of other exciting discoveries. 



