"Are you men all right?"
"Yes sir, but—"
"Who saw exactly what happened?"
"I'm afraid we're not seeing right, Captain. Those logs—"
"I know, I know. Now get hold of yourselves. We've got to round up the others and get out of here while time is on our side."
"But what happened, Captain?"
"Hell, Rhodes, don't you think I'd like to know? Those logs are so old they're petrified. The whole bunch of us couldn't lift one. It would take super-human energy to move one of those things."
"I haven't seen anything super-human. Those ostriches down there are so busy eating seaweed—"
"All right, let's bear a hand here with the others. Some of them can't walk. Where's Forbes?"
"He's sitting down there in the water, Captain, crying like a baby. Or laughing. I can't tell which."