Anon. "Echos du Pool et d'Ailleurs," L'Etoile de l'A.E.F. (15 February 1934)

The natives speak of it in the Great Lakes region, to Katanga, in the Ueles, in Bangala, and even to Kasai. In this last region, they call it the "sanki"; when they describe it, the blacks tell you: "It exceeds the tallest trees, the body is like that of a formidable ox, with a large tail; its neck is immense and ends in a rather small head on which it has a large crest like a coxcomb; it dwells in the swamps and swims at a very great speed" ... In Kasai, I even heard of a native chief who jealously guarded the tail of a brontosaur...

One of our old colonials, who has died recently, a pensive minded man not in the habit of raconteuring, firmly believed in the existence of a fabulous animal and claimed to have seen it twice, once at Lake Tanganyika, and once again at Bangala, where the Congo is at its widest!

"I was able to follow it through binoculars. The animal swam with a rapidity which is not characteristic of any other animal; it threw up large sprays. At Bangala, I was able to follow it in this way for several minutes and there is certainly no known beast which could have swam so far so fast."

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