[Narrator]: A mile further on, they reached the edge of a huge forest made up of vegetation of the Tertiary period Tall palms were linked by a network of inextricable creepers, a carpet of moss covering the ground and the leaves were colourless, everything having a brownish hue Exploring the forest they discovered a heard of gigantic animals, Mastadons, which were being marshalled by a primitive human being, a Proteus He stood over twelve foot high and brandished an Enormous bough, a crook worthy of this antediluvian shepherd