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Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.

John Hanning Speke

The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion.

John Hanning Speke

So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.

John Hanning Speke

I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.

John Hanning Speke

The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and as I had foretold, that lake is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our religious belief.

John Hanning Speke

John Hanning Speke

John Hanning Speke

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Born: May 4, 1827

Died: September 15, 1864 (aged 37)

Bio: John Hanning Speke was an officer in the British Indian Army who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa, he is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile and was the first European that reached Lake Victoria.

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