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Location Date Njili Airport, Kinshasa 1380754800 Kinshasa 1380668400 Nkana 1380582000 Tshumbiri
1380495600 Kwamouth 1380495600 Congo River 1380495600 Congo Sunset 1380409200 Bolobo 1380409200 Lukolela 1380322800 Congo Kids 1380322800 Irebu 1380236400 Lac Tumba 1380150000 Vers Lac Tumba 1379977200 Mbandaka 1379890800 Pres De Bolombo 1379804400 Makanza 1379718000 Equateur Province 1379631600 Lisala 1379545200 Bumba 1379372400 Kisangani 1378940400 Stanley Falls 1378854000 Tshopo Falls 1378854000 Tshopo Falls Bridge 1378854000 Kin La Poubelle 1378681200
We needed to get some kilometres under our belts after the Bolobo stop yesterday, so we pushed on last night until well after dark and eventually called it a day opposite Mboya (all lit up - on the opposite, French, bank - the first street lights we have seen for weeks). Just avoided getting speared by a large barge which was also pulling in in the pitch dark, but not by much.
There was lots of yelling, metallic banging and revving of large marine diesel engines just after 0500 this morning as the first of the barges prepared to move on upstream, so we were all up early.
I knew that a place mentioned in Jack's letters (called Tshumbiri) was in this area, but wondered if we had passed it in the dark last night. We asked the local village head whether there was an old mission house nearby and he said there was. After checking that 'nearby' didn't mean 5km away, we went off for an early morning wander with him acting as guide - and found the house built by one of Jack's predecessors - less than 300m from where we had camped. It has great views over the River Congo, which narrows significantly just a few kilometres upstream and you can see why Bolobo staff occasionally used it as a stop over or for a bit of R & R.
What is amazing though is that if we hadn't decided to push on in the dark last night, we wouldn't have camped within 300m of the house and wouldn't have had the opportunity to see it at all.
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Ursula tyrrell taylor Tshumbiri said to be where Mr Kurtz was, in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"
Ursula Tyrrell Taylor My father, Trevor Graham Rupert Tyrrell, frequently visited Tshumbiri, when he was stationed at Bolobo. He was a BMS missionary who specialized in education.
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rb Ursula Tyrrell Taylor My father, Trevor Graham Rupert Tyrrell, frequently visited Tshumbiri, when he was stationed at Bolobo. He was a BMS missionary who specialized in education.