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John Hanning Speke Quotes

1827–1864 England

John Hanning Speke (4 May 1827 – 15 September 1864) was an English explorer and army officer 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 to reach Lake Victoria.

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[I]f I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.

Discovery of the Source of the Nile (1863)

I profess accurately to describe naked Africa—Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation.

Discovery of the Source of the Nile (1863)

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.

Discovery of the Source of the Nile (1863)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Hanning Speke (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.