• @[email protected]
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    66 months ago

    Were there actually that sort of gunships or is that just a passenger boat with some dudes with guns aboard

        • @[email protected]
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          26 months ago

          Since he did not know the river, he was forced to engage a native pilot, who was strapped and handcuffed to a stanchion.

          At first the pilot pretended that he could not find his way, but a pistol held to his head quickly restored his powers of navigation.

          Dude was a piece of shit from the sounds of it.

          • @PugJesusOPM
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            26 months ago

            Considering he was an eager British officer as part of an expedition to put down an independence movement in Africa in the 19th century, it would honestly have been a bigger surprise if he wasn’t a piece of shit.