Luangwa

He was on an illegal elephant hunt with a group of men inside North Luangwa National Park in the southern African nation of Zambia.

Bernard Mutondo once made a living hunting elephants in North Luangwa National Park in Zambia, until Delia and Mark Owens arrived.Credit...

“You wouldn’t get far, child. The border patrol watches that part of the river like vultures. Anyhow, the Zambezi speeds up where the Luangwa joins the main channel. If the soldiers didn’t shoot you, the current would send you straight to the bottom.”

If the mouth of the Luangwa River was as bad as everyone said, it wouldn’t have survived anyhow.

He’d managed to “militarize” the North Luangwa National Park by arming the scouts and “buying their loyalty with weapons, boots and money.”