41.   Some left for the countryside, or hired a dugout canoe to take them to Kinshasa, the capital of the former Zaire, now renamed Congo.

42.   The farmer paddles a tiny dugout canoe through the maze of creeks that drain the swamp, towing or pushing a raft of sago logs.

43.   The dugout canoe headed across the Congo River, its small outboard motor struggling against the powerful current before it sputtered and ran out of gas.

44.   They live by fishing in dugout canoes carved from tree trunks, hunting and growing corn, yucca and beans.

45.   Their dugout canoes constantly traversed the Congo River border that runs between Kinshasa and Brazzaville, the capital of neighboring Republic of Congo.

46.   Two drunken men eventually arrived in a dugout canoe, talked to the first man, and returned with a shotgun.

47.   A waterway leading to the two pumping stations has been blocked by the hostage-takers with fallen trees, dugout canoes and cables.

48.   Nine people drowned in the north of Gambia after the dugout canoe they were travelling in overturned on a river between Banjul and Barra, Gambian authorities said Friday.