 After traveling to the railhead at Fungurume, they were detrained and dragged through the bush by teams of oxen and steam tractors to the beginnings of the railway from Sankisia to Bukama.At Bukama, the boats and stores were unloaded and prepared for a voyage down the Lualaba River.The Lualaba was running low, and "Mimi" and "Toutou" had to be paddled upstream, once running aground fourteen times in just .