In January 1917, Joseph was working at the hospital when the Collette, filled with the diseased and dying men of the Belgian expedition lead by Captain Henri Defense (Indiana Jones), returned up the Ogooué River with its cargo of weapons. Defense was nearly asleep at the rudder when Joseph slipped aboard the boat from a dugout. Defense, hearing Joseph speak German to his partners, feared a German takeover of the weapons, and tried to detonate the charges that would have destroyed the boat and kept the weapons from falling into enemy hands. Thinking quickly, Joseph first tried to subdue Defense, but when that failed, he took a machete and severed the detonation wire, then finally punched an armed Defense out cold. Joseph then brought the Collette to the dock, where Dr. Schweitzer oversaw th