Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:
Rudyard Kipling gave the answer, but in the screenplay they chose to remove this part, and in the shooting script, or at least the edit, they compromised between the two: From the story: and they cut, and old Dan fell, turning round and round and round, twenty thousand miles, for he took half an hour to fall till he struck the water, and I could see his body caught on a rock with the gold crown close beside . It seems from the story at least, that the body and crown were retrievable. and he never let go of Dan’s head. They gave it to him as a present in the temple, to remind him not to come again, and though the crown was pure gold, and Peachey was starving, never would Peachey sell the...
Full answer by blobbymcblobby: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/125323 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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