The Nile Basin: Part I: Showing Tanganyika to Be Ptolemy''s Western Lake Resevoir; Part II: Captain Speke''s Discovery of the Source of the Nile (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Richard Francis Burton

9780331893496: The Nile Basin: Part I: Showing Tanganyika to Be Ptolemy''s Western Lake Resevoir; Part II: Captain Speke''s Discovery of the Source of the Nile (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Nile Basin: Part I: Showing Tanganyika to Be Ptolemy's Western Lake Resevoir; Part II: Captain Speke's Discovery of the Source of the Nile

I here propose to write a few lines Of introductory matter to a Memoir Which was read by me before the Royal Geographical Society, on November 14th, 1864, and which is now published with more of detail. It is, however, still a notice purely geo graphical Of a paper, The Upper Basin Of the Nile, from Inspection and Information, by my late lamented companion, Captain J. H. Speke, published in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, vol. Xxxiii., 1863.

The melancholy event Of September 15th, 1864, which cast a gloom over our meetings at the pleasant Bath Association, precludes the possibility of my entering into any questions of a private or a personal nature. It would, Of course, have been far more congenial to my feelings to have met Captain Speke upon the platform, and to have argued out the affair before the scientific body then assembled. I went down fairly to seek this contest on September 13th.

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