NYTimes: Back in Kinshasa, and at last we have some time to relax in the mission where our journey began. It was quite a trip downriver -- our "speed" boat had broken down, so we ended up hitching a tow from a leaky pirogue with an ancient 15-horsepower outboard engine. The journey from Tshumbiri to Kinshasa took a day and a night of solid motoring, and we arrived rather bedraggled but happy to have made it in one piece. But now well rested and re-energized, for the last few days we have been packing ......
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Congo River Journey Ends in Boat Troubles
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 20th, 2010
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