Captain Speke and I found huge specimens in the Tangany ika Lake. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Speke, Celmonde, does ytte make thee notte afrayde?. From Wordnik.com. [The Rowley Poems] Reference
Baker meets Speke and Grant at Gondokoro. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
"Well a want sixteen kids and an 'ouse out in Speke". From Wordnik.com. [In My Liverpool Home] Reference
The fate of poor Speke had been still more lamentable. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
Burton and Speke, and subsequently to Speke and Grant. From Wordnik.com. [How I Found Livingstone] Reference
Speke set out on a cruise northward in a crazy old Arab. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
Speke also lectured vaingloriously at Burlington House. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
Edith Matega says maybe Speke should have asked an African. From Wordnik.com. [Mystery On The Nile: Just Whose River Is It?] Reference
There is no need for us to side either with Speke or Burton. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
Speke in his journal "Fauna", had this to say about Africans. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Burton and Speke had not yet returned from central Africa, when. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Speke, founder of the chapel of St. George in Exeter Cathedral. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850] Reference
"Speke, we must send you there again," he said enthusiastically. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Marching onwards, they found the waterfall, which Speke named the. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Speke crossed the lake in a long canoe hollowed out of the trunk of. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
On 13th February, Speke found a large volume of water going to the north. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Burton had treated both Speke and their native followers with inhumanity. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
Speke mentioned the body measurements of the fattest wives of a tribal king. From Wordnik.com. [Mystery On The Nile: Just Whose River Is It?] Reference
All Speke and Burton had to deal with were crocodiles, rapids, and the tsetse fly. From Wordnik.com. [Futures Imperfect]
"This mountain mass," says Speke, "I consider to be the True Mountains of the Moon.". From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
So the memorial says: Speke found this source of the Nile, and not the source of the Nile. From Wordnik.com. [Mystery On The Nile: Just Whose River Is It?] Reference
Finally they reached Berbera, where they found Speke, Herne and Stroyan, and on 5th February. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
But the bitterest pill was the news that Speke had been appointed to lead the new expedition. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
Speke and Grant now believed that, except for a few cataracts, the waterway to England was unbroken. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
On the far side they encamped on the opposite shore, Speke being the first white man to cross the lake. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
(Soundbite of insects) THOMPKINS: Then, in August of 1858, Speke had an Aha-moment to end all Aha-moments. From Wordnik.com. [Mystery On The Nile: Just Whose River Is It?] Reference
Such was Stanley's welcome to M'tesa's wonderful kingdom of Uganda, described by Speke sixteen years before. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Speke didn't have another white to corroborate his story about the big lake and a big river emanating from it. From Wordnik.com. [Mystery On The Nile: Just Whose River Is It?] Reference
One of the first summers at Craighouse was enlivened by a long visit from the African traveller, Captain Speke. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
After three months 'arduous travelling -- both Burton and Speke were badly stricken with fever -- they reached Kaze. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Speke now spread open the map of the missionaries and inquired of the natives where the enormous lake was to be found. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Captain Speke was then preparing, or endeavouring to prepare, for the press, his book, the 'Discovery of the Source of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
Speke returned to Kaze after his six weeks 'eventful journey, having tramped no less than four hundred and fifty-two miles. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
They stayed over a month at Kaze, till Burton seemed at the point of death, and Speke had him carried out of the unhealthy town. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
But Davies says the Victorians preferred the adventures of Henry Morton Stanley, who succeeded Speke and circumnavigated the lake. From Wordnik.com. [Mystery On The Nile: Just Whose River Is It?] Reference
In the hope of finding Speke and Grant, he took an extra load of corn as well as twenty-two donkeys, four camels, and four horses. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Two months later at Gondokoro he met Speke and Grant, who, after discovering the source of the Nile, were following the river to Egypt. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
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