Tintin confronts the stowaway and they fight over a waterfall, where the latter is eaten by crocodiles. Then, disguised as a missionary, he captures Tintin again, leaving him tied up in a boat set to go over a waterfall, but Father Sebastian once again saves him. The stowaway again tries to kill Tintin, binding him and hanging him from a tree branch over a river to be eaten by crocodiles, but he is rescued by a passing Father Sebastian. Muganga and the stowaway plot to kill Tintin and make it look like a leopard attack, but Tintin survives and saves Muganga from a boa constrictor Muganga pleads mercy and ends his hostilities. Tintin outwits them, and the M'Hatuvu cease hostilities and come to idolise Tintin. White mister is big juju man!" Īngered, Muganga starts a war between the Babaorum and their neighbours, the M'Hatuvu, whose king leads an attack on the Babaorum village. Tintin becomes a hero in the village, and a local woman bows down to him, saying, "White man very great! Has good spirits. The enraged villagers imprison Tintin, but then turn against Muganga when Coco shows them footage Tintin had made of the witch-doctor and the stowaway conspiring to destroy the idol. With the help of the criminal stowaway, Muganga accuses Tintin of destroying the tribe's sacred idol. When he cures a man using quinine, he is hailed as a Boula Matari ("Breaker of rocks"). Tintin gains the admiration of the natives, making the Babaorum witch-doctor Muganga jealous.
A lion knocks Tintin unconscious, but Snowy rescues him by biting off its tail. He meets the king, who accompanies him on a hunt the next day.
The next morning, Tintin, Snowy, and Coco crash their car into a train, which the reporter fixes and tows to the village of the Babaorum tribe. A monkey kidnaps Snowy, but Tintin saves him by disguising himself as another monkey. A criminal stowaway attempts to kill Tintin, but monkeys throw coconuts at the stowaway that knock him unconscious. Tintin hires a native boy, Coco, to assist him in his travels, and soon thereafter Tintin rescues Snowy from a crocodile. Critical reception of the work has been largely negative, with commentators on The Adventures of Tintin describing it as one of Hergé's lesser works.īelgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy travel to the Belgian Congo, where a cheering crowd of native Congolese greet them. Accordingly, attempts were made in Belgium, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States to either ban the work or restrict its availability to children. In the late 20th century, Tintin in the Congo became increasingly controversial for both its racist colonial attitude toward Congolese people and for its glorification of big-game hunting. In 1946, Hergé re-drew and coloured Tintin in the Congo in his distinctive ligne-claire style for republication by Casterman, with further alterations made at the request of his Scandinavian publisher for a 1975 edition.
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Hergé continued The Adventures of Tintin with Tintin in America in 1932, and the series subsequently became a defining part of the Franco-Belgian comics tradition.
Following on from Tintin in the Land of the Soviets and bolstered by publicity stunts, Tintin in the Congo was a commercial success within Belgium and was also serialised in France.
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