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The Discovery of the Source of the Nile

by John Hanning Speke

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Speke’s own account of the expedition with Grant from Zanzibar to Buganda: the caravan and its desertions, the courts of Karagwe and Buganda described at length, and the outlet at the Ripon Falls that he declared the Nile’s source — a claim Burton disputed until Speke’s death the day before their public debate.

The most contested discovery of the nineteenth century, by the man who made it. Download the free EPUB.

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