King Solomon's Mines

My assigned extract. It's got an Indiana Jones cross over with Journey to the Centre of the Earth feel about it, so I can't wait to start getting down some more ideas. However, I'm finding it rather difficult at the moment as the way the extract is written, I'm finding it hard to follow. I know the story is a rather old one, published and wrote in 1885. I have 1 or 2 sketches for scene designs but I wouldn't mind attempting to gain some more.