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When Irish missionary Olive Archer finally arrived at her destination after a four-week canoe journey down the River Luapula in central Africa, her fiancé jumped from his bed and ran to meet her in his pyjamas.

In 1926, Irish missionary Olive Archer, age 28, boarded a canoe and set off on the crocodile-infested waters of the Luapula river in central Africa to join her husband-to-be Patrick Kerr Dixon, an Irish doctor and missionary in what is now the ...