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My grandpa told me stories about Congolese rivers from his days as an onion merchant ship crew. Said, no matter how deep into the jungle they sailed, many stopovers were flocked with kinds of mercs just like cantinas in Star Wars. He's a bit rigged in the head so I gotta ask, how true is this?

by /u/magicjenkins in /r/AskHistorians

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