<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed . Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise . (February 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed . Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise . (February 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> In the early Victorian period, two young child cousins, Richard (Glenn Kohan) and Emmeline Lestrange (Elva Josephson), and a galley cook, Paddy Button (Leo McKern), survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific and reach a lush tropical island . Paddy cares for the small children and forbids them by "Law" from going to the other side of the island, as he had found remains from bloody human sacrifices on an Easter Island - like altar . He also warns them against eating a scarlet berry which is apparently deadly (he calls it the "never - wake - up berry"). </P> <P> Paddy soon dies after a drunken binge and his body is discovered by Richard and Emmeline . Now alone, the children go to another part of the island and rebuild their home . </P>

What were the berries in the blue lagoon