Archie and Hope Stainforth gallery / on a raft in 'darkest Africa', c1933

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Archie and Hope on trek in the Toanga district, Nigeria, an area of 4000 square miles, 100 miles from their headquarters in Yola. Here they are crossing the Benue River on a raft, very hot and tired at the end of a long day's march.

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