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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.

— John Hanning Speke Discovery of the Source of the Nile (1863)

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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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