Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . to thecartography of the region aswell as to a knowledge of itsnatural history and Livingstone wasmaking his important dis-coveries in Southern Africa,the expedition of Burtonand Speke (1857) from Zan-zibar succeeded in reachingthe shores of the greatLake Tanganyika at Ujiji, at a distance of seven hundredmiles from the coast. On their return Spoke made ajourney northwards from Unyanyembe, a
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . to thecartography of the region aswell as to a knowledge of itsnatural history and Livingstone wasmaking his important dis-coveries in Southern Africa,the expedition of Burtonand Speke (1857) from Zan-zibar succeeded in reachingthe shores of the greatLake Tanganyika at Ujiji, at a distance of seven hundredmiles from the coast. On their return Spoke made ajourney northwards from Unyanyembe, and discovered thesouthern shore of a vast inland fresh-water lake, which henamed the Victoria Nyanza. The expedition of Speke andGrant reached Unyanyembe in 18G1, and during that andthe following year they marched northward to the VictoriaNyanza, skirted the western shore of that great lake, andreached the kingdom of ITganda, discovering the outlet of theNile at Ripon Falls. They followed the river to Gondokoro onthe White Nile, which they reached in February, 1863, wherethey wore met by Sanuiel Baker. Thus Speke and Grant,by their discovery of the main source of the Nile, solved a.
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