It takes one month to travel up river from Kinshasa. These barges stop at villages on the journey up river and the passengers can buy food and supplies at the villages along the way. In the life on the river, these villages are sparsely populated and seem inactive, until a barge carrying a thousand or more people arrive. The effect is like a county fair. Villagers slaughter pigs and chickens or smoke small crocodiles for meat. They eat fish and the popular delicacy of live caterpillars. In the foreground a Father teaches son how to navigate a pirogue, a key skill to survive life encompassed by water.

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