And We Ate the Leopard: Serving in the Belgian Congo

by Margaret Baker Wente

In 1932 Donald and Lelia Baker arrive at Mondombe, a mission station far up a tributary of the Congo River, to heal and educate the Africans. Dr. Baker is the only doctor for an area the size of Indiana. A year later their daughter Margaret is born.

In And We Ate the Leopard, Margaret Baker Wente describes the unusual story of her family's life in the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) catching marauding leopards, surviving...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595466311
• ISBN13: 9780595466313
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"