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Costermansville

British  
/ ˈkɒstəmənzˌvɪl /

noun

  1. the former name (until 1966) of Bukavu

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We landed at a very fine airstrip at the town of Costermansville situated on Lake Kivu...The lake is one of the most beautiful that I have ever seen...It is certainly much more beautiful than Lago di Como and I am quite sure that it contains less dead bodies, of human beings at any rate.

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