ofiF to find the source of the Nile.n(Burton's voyage is recounted in thenrecent film The Mountains of thenMoon.) He came close, but battlesnwith the African peoples he encountered---nand roundly despised --- and angrowing rivalry with Speke botched hisnmission. Speke sagely named the headwatersnLake Victoria and took singlencredit . . .
January 1975July 26, 2022By The Archive
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