John Hanning Speke, born 1827. Served in the Punjab but left in 1854 to explore Somaliland. Discovered Lake Tanganyika with Burton, and Lake Victoria independently. Was, with Grant, the first European to cross equatorial africa. Died 1864.
CONTENTS
Journal of the Discovery of The Source of the Nile
Chapter 1. London to Zanzibar, 1859
Chapter II. Uzaramo
Chapter III. Usagara
Chapter IV. Ugogo, and the Wilderness of Mgunda Mkhali
Chapter V. Unyamuezi
Chapter VI. Uzinza
Chapter VII. Usui
Chapter VIII. Karague
Chapter IX. History of the Wahuma
Chapter X. Karague and Uganda
Chapter XI. Palace, Uganda
Chapter XII. Palace, Uganda—Continued
Chapter XIII. Palace, Uganda—Continued
Chapter XIV. Palace, Uganda—Continued
Chapter XV. March Down the Northern Slopes of Africa
Chapter XVI. Bahr El Abiad
Chapter XVII. Unyoro
Chapter XVIII. Unyoro—Continued
Chapter XIX. The March to Madi
Chapter XX. Madi
John Hanning Speke was a man of thirty-six, when his Nile Journal appeared. He had entered the army in 1844, and completed ten years of service in India, serving through the Punjab Campaign. Already he had conceived the idea of exploring Africa, before his ten