Cruise line sends a yacht up the Gambia River toward home of ‘Roots’ hero

If Kunta Kinte could see the Gambia River, he wouldn’t believe it. Picture a white yacht flying a blue Greek flag. Sitting on the deck are 25 people having lunch, a little white wine, a little pasta. The yacht, Pegasus, is the only vessel on the shimmering, warm river. It glides past the shore, headed back from nearly a week cruising far up-country, to places where the heat hits 40 C, where those aboard have seen birds and crocodiles, chimps and monkeys, been escorted by a Gambian member of parliament on a village tour and been carried on a horse cart over a flooded road.