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Senegal Picture by Mark Davies
Travel story: Shipwrecked sailors

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The afternoon that I arrived on Goree, there were two navy gunboats moored at the dock with about a hundred officers-in-training who had come to the Island for a day-trip. One of the gunboats had gone a little too close to the beach and was stuck. Three hours of general chaos and excitement ensued as the trainees stood helpless and somewhat embarrassed on the pier.

First they tied a rope between the two gunboats and tried to pull it off. Smoke... More

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