This was in the Congo, the port at Brazzaville. They wouldn't know. These are open barges, and here people are setting down for the night. Now it's the most extraordinary sight. There are 3000 people, men and women, on these barges, with a big power block either side, tugs. And little balineers, fishing boats, getting a ride upriver. And 3000 people and no guardrails, no safety, no nothing anywhere. Big gaps between the barges, and as the captain said, 'Well, what can you do? Babies will roll over in their sleep and we lose two or three each time, going upriver.' And the other thing, perhaps, you out to know, is that there are 3000 people and two lavatories, or three, but one of them was locked by the purser, because that's where he kept his crocodiles, in there, to sell when he gets to the town upriver, and Brazzaville, when back in Brazzaville.

Yes, an education in itself, that was. Wonderful.