Speke

John Hanning, the English traveller, was born in 1827. In 1844 he took part in the war of the Punjab; in 1854 he accompanied Burton’s expedition to Somali Land, where he was wounded and in 1857 he and Burton again set out (directed; by the Royal Geographical Society) and discovered lake Tanganyika. Burton fell sick then, but Speke went on and discovered the south end of the Victoria Nyanza. In 1862, accompanied by Captain Grant, he explored the western and northern margin of the lake, and discovered the White Nile. He described his discoveries and adventures in his “Journal of the Discovery of the Sources of the Nile," and “ What led to the Discovery of the Sources of the Nile.”