Word: kisumu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corsair, flown by Captain Edward Samson Alcock, younger brother of the Empire's late famed pioneer Transatlantic Flier Captain Sir John Alcock, was bound last March from Kisumu to Cairo, on the South Africa-to-England run. Young Alcock was rocketing along over the jungle at 200 m.p.h. when he found he was running out of fuel. Instead of flying over Juba, he was 150 miles to the southeast. The Dangu River, swarming with hippos, crocodiles and water snakes, hedged by high and slippery banks, yawned beneath...