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to manage well."
Two months after leaving London,
Spicer's navy-on-wheels is joined
by the steam engines
that will pull the boats through the forest.
The tractors are built for level
country furrows
- but ahead of them lie some of
Africa's most forbidding peaks.
being shadowed
"we knew that the English
intended to challenge
our supremacy of the lake.
We also knew that the Belgians
were building a boat.
Where they were building, or
wanted to build, was unknown."
If Spicer and his men make it to
Lake Tanganyika, Zimmer vows,
they will not leave Africa alive.
August 18, 1915.
Stage Three.
forgiving terrain
on Earth await the British troopers
- a wild land of disease and
sudden death.
At first light, Geoffrey Spicer
leads his men out of camp.
"There were no roads such as we
call roads in this country,
the whole route ran through the
thick African forest."
The dry season will last only
a few more weeks
- then the autumn rains will come
- if mud swallows the tractors,
Spicer's mission... and his only
shot at glory -
will be over before it begins.
The steam tractors are in the lead,
each hauling one of Spicer's
little ships,
and ten tons of wood for the
insatiable engines.
Four hundred Africans... men and
women
- carry water, food, ammunition,
medicine
- a procession that stretches for
nearly two miles.
On the first day, at the first river
crossing,
Mimi and her tractor nearly
tumble into the current.
It is the first test of Spicer's
leadership.
Undaunted, Spicer has chief engineer
Wainwright come up with a plan.
Wainwright has more trees cut,
reinforces the bridge,
"The work was completed at 2:30 p.m.
and the trailers were towed across
and a start was made along
the road at 3.
good progress was made along
the road
and at 6 p.m. a camp was formed
for the night."
Spicer knows there are more than
The path they are following
continues uphill for 60 miles,
then they reach the Mitumba
Mountains, a 6,400 foot range.
Day by day, mile by mile, the former
desk officer grows more confident
- his boasts more outrageous...
the men love him.
the ratings...
They all appreciate a commanding
officer who's a bit mad, eccentric.
And he was obviously mad.
Therefore he was marvelous.
"I'd say he could not refrain from
telling absurd stories
about his prowess at shooting
the lions he'd shot,
although I'd never heard of any
lions in Gambia."
The caravan survives on the skill
of its African hunters,
living off wild buck and guinea fowl.
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