Setting:  The bank of a river as a steamer ship pulls away.  Two men stand side by side on wooden landing along the shore.  The land moves steeply upward from the river and the bank is muddy and dirty looking.  It seems to be maintained but in a very bad way.  There are patches of long grasses and reeds and the hill is mostly dead grass and muddy.  Up the hill is a small courtyard marked on two adjacent sides by two small shabby grass buildings on wooden frames.  the courtyard is all dirt except for a few very small patches of short stiff dead grass and a ring of dead yellow sharp grass around a rather pathetic wooden flag pole slightly off from the center.  One building has three rooms with entrance from the long wooden verandah that runs along it's front. Two rooms are bedrooms and one is a sitting room with a table and chairs.  The adjacent building is a store room with a small attachment built of the far side in which a family lives.  It is one room with a doorway covered by a small sheet.  The store room is a little bigger than the other section but slightly lower as it is set into the ground.  There are a few steps in the entrance way leading down into a square space filled with small odds and ends and many things that are useless in such large amounts, rags, beads, cloth.  Things for trade but not for use.  There is also food there.  From the entrance to the house there is built a small awning for shade.  The house has one window.  

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	Panel A- The two men stand watching the steamer pull away and the men on the deck seem to be staring back.  

		Carlier: Well.  That's that. (looking at the other Kayerts who is starring 			   attentively after the steamer)

	Panel B- Kayerts has his hand up and is waving to the steamer.

		KAyerts: Six months.

	Panel C- Both men are waving and a man on the boat is tipping his hat.

		Carlier:  Yes I suppose it will be.

	Panel D- The men turn towards each other.  

		Kayerts: Well, shall we walk up?

		Carlier: You're the Chief.

	Panel E- The two men have turned and are walking close by each other up 		     the hill. 
	
		Carlier: What's happened to the other chap, again?

	Panel F- Close on Kayerts as he gives Carlier a grim look.

		Kayerts: A fever took him they say.  

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	Panel A- The two men walk by a grave with a large wooden cross marking it.

		Kayerts: Poor devil. (looking down)
	
	Panel B- Kayerts looks over to Carliers and says knowingly.

		Kayerts: I've been told he exposed himself recklessly to the sun.

	Panel C- Kayerts Continuing his lecture.

		Kayerts: The climate here, everybody says, is not all that worse than 			    at home.  
	
	Panel D- Kayerts stops Carliers by with the back of his hand and looks up at 		him as if over a pair of invisible spectacles.

		Kayerts: If you stay out of the sun.  

		Carliers: I see. 

	Panel E: The two men face have stopped walking and face eachother.  

		Kayerts (pointing): Carliers! As chief of this outpost my orders are that 			you should not expose yourself to the sun!

		Carliers (smiling, saluting): Yes sir!

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	Panel A- Shot from over a mans shoulder as the two men walk into the courtyard at the far end.  They have their arms around each other's shoulders and are laughing. 
	
	Panel B- Front shot of Mr. Price (Makola) sitting outside the store room.  Watching the men approach with obvious displeasure. He is grinding a stick in the dirt at his feet.

	Panel C- A bird's eye view of the outpost to establish the layout.  The two men have veered towards the big house on the west end of the courtyard.  Makola's store room and house are on the north.  The men approached from the south.  To the east and down the hill there is another small hut on stilts by the water.  

	Panel D- Makola has stood and is walking into the Storeroom.  He has stopped in the doorway, bracing himself on the steps with a hand on the doorframe, to look back over his shoulder at the men, in disgust and anger.  

	Panel E- Out the empty store room entrance at the two men approaching the house.

		Carlier: We shall let life run easily here!

		Kayerts: Aye, just sit still and gather up the ivory the savages bring.

	Panel F- The two men entering the house.  Carliers slaps Kayerts on the back.

		Carlier: We shall let life run easily.

		Kayerts: My dear fellow, this country has it's good points, after all! 

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	Panel A- A long establishing shot of the courtyard.  There are many men squatting in rows in front of the big house and Makola and one of the men are standing in front of a tusk arguing.  The two white men are on the Verandah watching the scene.  There are other black men milling about the yard with tools and other things.  Mostly sitting in small groups in the shade.  

	Panel B- Shot from near Makola and the other man, looking toward the 		verandah where Kayerts is shouting things to Makola with a lazy wave of his 	hand. 

		Kayerts: You, Makola! Take this herd to the fetish and give them some 			of that rubbish in there.  
		
	Panel C- On the porch, Kayerts looks round at Carlier who is starring down 	at the rows of men squatting.

		Kayerts: I'd rather see it full of bone than of rags.

		Carliers (leaning on the rail): Fine animals!

	Panel D- Carliers points down.

		Carliers: Look at the muscles of that fellow.

	Panel E- Kayerts comes to look over Carliers shoulder to where he is 		pointing.

		Kayerts: I wouldn't want a punch on the nose from him!

		Carliers: Yes, fine arms but the legs no good below the knee.

	Panel F- He turns his head to Kayerts standing beside him.

			Carliers: Couldn't make calvary men of them.

	Panel G- Makola and the man have turned and begun to walk away from the 	verandah.  Kayerts shouts to him.  Makola still looks away annoyed and 		disgusted trying to ignore the men.  

		Kayerts: Yes, Yes.  Makola, go finish over there.
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	Panel A - Kayerts and Carlier are both asleep on chairs they have drug out 	onto the verandah.

	Panel B- Carlier is woken by the presence of Gobila standing over him.  He is bent and starring into Carliers face.  

	Panel C- Carlier wiping his eyes reaches back and pushes Kayerts shoulder to wake him.  Gobila stands over him still. 

		Carlier: Wake up, Kayerts you lazy dog.  We have company.
	
	Panel D- On Kayerts, who is twisting slightly in his chair and wiping his eyes 	with the palm of his hands.  
	
		Kayerts: Company?  What do you mean? 

	Panel E- Carliers is getting out of the chair and looking over at kayerts.  Gobila stands upright and stately next to him.  

		Carliers: Go get that ammonia bottle he likes to smell so much.
		
		Kayerts: No, light some of your matches for him.  

	Panel F- Carliers looks around Gobila and sees women carrying jugs and 	baskets with food and drink.  

		Carliers: He's brought the food with him.  

	Panel G- On Kayerts who looks up and smiles.  

		Kayerts: Well isn't that fine! I thought we'd have to eat rice.

	Panel H- The verandah with Kayerts sitting still struggling to wake properly, Gobila still standiing starring at the two men, and Carliers leaning on the rail watching the women pass below.  

		Carliers: Yes.  They are a bit late today.  

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