Rose is inflamed with patriotism, and also filled with the desire to avenge insults that the Germans had piled on her brother. It also holds two large tanks of oxygen and hydrogen. The African Queen is well-stocked with tinned food, and carries a two-hundredweight cargo of blasting gelignite. Allnutt buries Rose's brother and brings Rose to the African Queen, where they consider what they should do. Allnutt's two-man crew has deserted him because of the rumours of war and conscription. Allnutt is the mechanic and skipper of the African Queen, a steam-powered launch, owned by a Belgian mining corporation, that plies the upper reaches of the Ulanga River. That day a London Cockney named Allnutt arrives at the village. Samuel dies during the night and Rose is alone. World War I has recently begun, and the German military commander of the area has conscripted all the natives the village is deserted, and only Rose and her brother, who is dying, remain. Rose Sayer, a 33-year-old British woman, is the companion and housekeeper of her brother Samuel Sayer, an Anglican missionary in German East Africa (present-day Tanzania). The story opens in August/September 1914.
It was adapted into the 1951 film of the same name. The African Queen is a 1935 novel written by English author C.
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