John Hanning Speke Quotes

• As fattening is the first duty of fashionable female life, it must be duly enforced by the rod if necessary. I got up a bit of flirtation with missy, and induced her to rise and shake hands with me. Her face was lovely, but her body was as round as a ball.

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• 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.

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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.

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• The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.

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• The lion is, however, rarely heard – much more seldom seen.

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

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• 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.

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• My first occupation was to map the country.

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• In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa.

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• 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.

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

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• Each tribe has its characteristics, it is true.

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• Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made.

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Birth:	4th May, 1827
Death:	15th September, 1864
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Army Officer, Explorer

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John Hanning Speke was born in Bideford, Devon, England. He was an English soldier and explorer. He 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 to reach Lake Victoria. In 1844, he was commissioned into the British Army and posted to India, where he served under Sir Colin Campbell during the First Anglo-Sikh War.

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