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HUNTERS RETURNING FROM THE CHASE ON THE SHORE OF AFRICA'S LONGEST LAKE
| Native craft used on Lake Tanganyika are clumsy, round-bottomed dug-outs, very apt to roll bodily over if at all heavily laden. Nevertheless, the natives handle them with confident dexterity on the often rough waters of the lake, standing up to paddle and often raising wild chants as they work |
POOR SPORT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART: CANOEING ON BANGWEOLO'S REEDY SWAMPS
| Tall reeds stud wide expanses of Lake Bangweolo, greatly impeding the progress of canoes. Passengers squat in the bottom of the dug-out and trust to the balancing agility of the crew, who flourish their paddles as rope-walkers do their pole, and use them at once to propel and trim the boat |