Under the sponsorship of Sir Roderick Murchison, president of the Royal Geographical Society, Speke traveled to Lake Victoria Nyanza, in Africa, which he was convinced was the source of the Nile River. This addition to White Star's new Great Adventures series describes, in the first person, the physical hardship and daily adventures experienced by John Hanning Speke in his search for the source of the Nile River in the 1850s. It also describes the controversy sparked by his claim that he had found the source of the great river, and the honors he received for his discovery.
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My third expedition in Africa, which was avowedly for the purpose of establishing the truth of my assertion that the Victoria N'yanza, which I discovered on the 30th July 1858, would eventually prove to be the source of the Nile, may be said to have commenced on the 9th May 1859, the first day after my return to England from my second expedition, when, at the invitation of Sir. R. I. Murchison, I called at his house to show him my map for the information of the Royal Geographical Society. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
yards merikani, more pombe, refractory brothers, little sheikh, sheikh said, granitic hills, former journey, magic horn, former expedition, pretty cloths, revolving pistol, magic powder, frontier officer, five goats Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Manua Sera, Victoria N'yanza, Colonel Rigby, Mountains of the Moon, Captain Grant, Royal Geographical Society, East Coast Range, Fundi Kira, Mgunda Mkhali, Jiwa la Mkoa, Murchison Creek, Church Estate, Kitangule Kagera, Little Windermere, N'yama Goma, Said Said, Union Jack, Fundi Sangoro, Kurshid Agha, Marenga Mkhali, Sahela Selassie, Victoria Nyanza New!
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My third expedition in Africa, which was avowedly for the purpose of establishing the truth of my assertion that the Victoria N'yanza, which I discovered on the 30th July 1858, would eventually prove to be the source of the Nile, may be said to have commenced on the 9th May 1859, the first day after my return to England from my second expedition, when, at the invitation of Sir. R. I. Murchison, I called at his house to show him my map for the information of the Royal Geographical Society. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
yards merikani, more pombe, refractory brothers, little sheikh, sheikh said, granitic hills, former journey, magic horn, former expedition, pretty cloths, revolving pistol, magic powder, frontier officer, five goats Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Manua Sera, Victoria N'yanza, Colonel Rigby, Mountains of the Moon, Captain Grant, Royal Geographical Society, East Coast Range, Fundi Kira, Mgunda Mkhali, Jiwa la Mkoa, Murchison Creek, Church Estate, Kitangule Kagera, Little Windermere, N'yama Goma, Said Said, Union Jack, Fundi Sangoro, Kurshid Agha, Marenga Mkhali, Sahela Selassie, Victoria Nyanza New!
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- What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke in Front Matter
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