The Discovery of the Source of the Nile
John Hanning Speke
Editor's Note
Introduction.
Chapter 1. London to Zanzibar, 1859
Chapter II. Uzaramo
Chapter III. Usagara
Chapter IV. Ugogo, and the Wilderness of Mgunda Mkhali
Chapter V. Unyamuezi
Chapter VI. Uzinza
Chapter VII. Usui
Chapter VIII. Karague
Chapter IX. History of the Wahuma
Chapter X. Karague and Uganda
Chapter XI. Palace, Uganda
Chapter XII. Palace, Uganda - Continued
Chapter XIII. Palace, Uganda - Continued
Chapter XIV. Palace, Uganda - Continued
Chapter XV. March Down the Northern Slopes of Africa
Chapter XVI. Bahr El Abiad
Chapter XVII. Unyoro
Chapter XVIII. Unyoro - Continued
Chapter XIX. The March to Madi
Chapter XX. Madi
John Hanning Speke, born 1827. Served in the Punjab but left in 1854 to explore Somaliland. Discovered
Lake Tanganyika with Burton, and Lake Victoria independently. Was, with Grant, the first European to
cross Equatorial Africa. Died 1864.
Editor's Note
John Hanning Speke was a man of thirty-six, when his Nile Journal appeared. He had entered the army in
1844, and completed ten years of service in India, serving through the Punjab Campaign. Already he had
conceived the idea of exploring Africa, before his ten years were up, and on their conclusion he was
appointed a member of the expedition preparing to start under Sir Richard (then Lieutenant Burton) for
the Somali country. He was wounded by the Somalis, and returned to England on sick leave; the Crimean
War then breaking out, be served through it, and later, December 1856, joined another expedition under
Burton. Then it was that the possibility of the source of the Nile being traced to one of the inland lakes
seems to have struck him.
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