Alexandre it's been 46 good days I've been running around like a headless chicken, looking for a goddess I'm beginning to think is fictitious, the young man Joseph has even abandoned 'ship' but to his credit, handed me over to another young man named Taye, and I must say, I prefer this new guy. It all happened after I discovered that subsidence, I was tempted to jump in to see where it will lead me, but Joseph swayed me, claiming that anything that enters that hole, washes up dead, so we went into the town of Bamako in Mali, where we took a lodging, the days that followed were a blur as we explored one tributary after the next, the further north we went, the hotter the weather, I was wondering, since the sun cannot harm me, the heat has taken it upon itself, I was wondering how a flowin

