He finds the remains of the Italian explorer, Attilio Gatti, and learns that the cave he found earlier was the diamond mine. With great difficulty, he gets out, marking his way with "pebbles" and taking some back with him as memento, not knowing each is an uncut diamond. He buries him with all rites and sets sail towards the mountain of moon. Desolated Shankar mourns the death of Alvarez deeply. Eventually they get lost in the forests where Alvarez is killed by the monster, in an effort to save Shankar's life. One night they were attacked by the monster Bunyip. The first is a raging volcano which forces them to halt their expedition. Shankar gives up his job and accompanies Alvarez as he decides to venture out once more and find the mines again. However, they were thwarted by the legendary Bunyip, a mythical monster who guards the mines and killed Carter. Alavarez tells him of his exploits and adventures, how he and his companion Jim Carter had braved deep jungles and mountains of Richtersveld to find the largest diamond mine. The encounter with Alavarez influences him deeply. He rescues and looks after the middle-age Portuguese explorer and gold prospector, Diego Alvarez. He tempts the lion out of his cave and eventually shots him down. He poses as bait by pouring blood on himself and scatters meat chunks.
This rages Shankar and he decides to end this peril. One day Tirumal becomes victim of the same man-eating lion. They quickly strike a rapport and Tirumal visits him often. The next day he gets these things from another fellow Indian, Tirumal Appa, who is serving the British Army. He miffs the black mamba with his torchlight. The next day he asks the head stationmaster to provide him with a Springfield bolt-action rifle and carbolic acid as a day before he encounters another hazard in Africa: the poisonous black mamba. One evening Shankar is chased by a man-eating lion and luckily he reaches his cabin and locks the door.
By a stroke of luck, he secures a job as a station master in a desolate station in Uganda Railway through a fellow villager working there and goes to Africa without a second thought. He wants to follow the footsteps of famous explorers like Livingstone, Mungo Park, Marco Polo, all of whom he has read about and idolizes. He yearns for adventure, wild lands, forests and animals. Shankar Roy Chowdhury (Dev), the protagonist, is a 20-year-old man, recently completed his First Arts graduation and about to take up a job in a jute mill, a prospect he absolutely loathes.
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