Doc Savage: Skull Island (The Wild Adventures Of Doc Savage) - Plot & Excerpts
replied Old Stormy in a reasonable voice.Doc decided to follow suit. He, too, crouched as they surveyed the shaggy hump of island that stood before them.Skull Mountain brooded some miles distant, no less foreboding because moonlight ensilvered its gloomy countenance.“You see the hollow where he dwells?” asked the old sea captain, pointing a long finger at the landmark’s right eye socket.“Yes.”“In the other hollow are strange artifacts of a dead civilization. Treasure. Statuary. Other bric-a-brac. A great people shaped that prominence. They left behind their detritus, which would be worth millions to European museums.”“Who were they?”“I do not know,” confessed Stormalong. “But I have often wondered if, in times unrecorded by history, some of the people who still come to this island, the Malay and the Dyaks, might not be following some ancestral memory of a time when their distant cousins came and settled here.”“Difficult to imagine any civilized people colonizing an island filled with crawling death as this one,”
What do You think about Doc Savage: Skull Island (The Wild Adventures Of Doc Savage)?
