The hero, Lige, accompanied by his Black valet, land on a desert island and are captured by cannibals who prepare to put them in a stew. A flood of water released to put out a fire in one of the straw huts sweeps them away. With the aid of an alligator, mistaken for a spar, they land on a shore and are received as guests of an oriental potentate in his palace; however, the desire of the ruler for the girl and the opposition of the hero causes the latter with his companion to be thrown in a room where a lion is let loose, and then follows a merry chase and general mix-up which covers the whole palace ending in the hero conquering the lion.