The defenses Leiningen had devised were quite impressive.

5 seconds sound clip from the Leiningen Versus the Ants (1948) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:08:07 in the radio play.

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- You don't seem very surprised.

- No, I'm not.

- You expected me?

- I thought you'd be back. Here, come along, we'll get some horses.

- You'll want to ride around the plantation, take a look at the defenses I rigged up.

- Yes, I'll want to see the defenses.

- And the ants. We'll be a getting a glimpse of 'em before long, I should think.

- Yes... the ants.

- The defenses Leiningen had devised were quite impressive.

- Surrounding three sides of the plantation like a huge horseshoe was a ditch, twelve feet wide.

- The ends of this horseshoe-shaped ditch ran into the river which formed the fourth side of the plantation.

- And at the up-river entrance to the ditch, Leiningen had constructed a dam by which river water could be diverted into the ditch.

- A large hand-wheel controlled the floodgate of the dam and apparently Leiningen had ordered it opened immediately after my arrival.

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