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- In 1854 he made his first voyage to Africa, first arriving in Aden to ask permission of the Political Resident of this British Outpost to cross the Gulf of Aden and collect specimens in Somalia for his family's natural history museum in Somerset.
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Initially the party split with Burton going to Harrar, Abyssinia, and Speke going to Wadi Nogal in Somalia. During this trip Speke experienced trouble with the local guide, who cheated him; after they returned to Aden, Burton, who had also returned, saw that the guide was punished, jailed and killed.
Apr 17, 2011 · Speke returned to Aden on 22.4.55 with Burton and Herne and, after examination of the spear wounds he had incurred, was recommended to take three years leave in England. In fact his wounds healed quickly, and in a month he was restored to perfect health.
Sep 11, 2024 · John Hanning Speke (born May 3, 1827, Bideford, Devon, England—died September 15, 1864, near Corsham, Wiltshire) was a British explorer who was the first European to reach Lake Victoria in East Africa, which he correctly identified as a source of the Nile.
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During the return trip, Speke left Burton, who was unwell, and struck out northward alone. In July he found a great lake which he named in honour of Queen Victoria.
- John Henning Speke – Early Years
- First African Expedition
- Lake Victoria
- The Rivalry of Burton vs Speke
- Towards The Sources of The Nile
- A Fatal Shooting Accident
- Speeke Had Been Right
Speke was born on 4 May 1827 at Orleigh Court, Buckland Brewer near Bideford, North Devon, UK, as one of seven children of William Speke, a retired army captain, and Georgina Elizabeth (née Hanning) who came from a wealthy mercantile family. He was educated at Barnstaple Grammar School and at a college in Blackheath, London. In 1844 he was commissi...
In 1854 he made his first voyage to Africa, first arriving in Aden to ask permission of the Political Resident of this British Outpost to cross the Gulf of Aden and collect specimens in Somaliland for his family’s natural history museum in Somerset. This was refused as Somaliland was considered rather dangerous. Speke then asked to join an expediti...
In December 1856 he rejoined Burton on the island of Zanzibar. Their intention was to find a great lake said to lie in the heart of Africa and to be the origin of the Nile. After exploring the East African coast for six months to find the best route inland, the two men became the first Europeans to reach Lake Tanganyika(February 1858). During the r...
From the beginning, the relationship of Speke and Burton was one of opposites; Burton considered Speke inferior linguistically and a less experienced traveler in remote regions but Burton himself appears to have been jealous and far less able to relate to the safari caravan to keep the expedition motivated and moving. Burton was appointed the head ...
Speke’s conclusion about the lake as a Nile source was rejected by Burton and was disputed by many in England, but the Royal Geographical Society, which had sponsored the expedition, honored Speke for his exploits. On a second expedition (1860), he and James Augustus Grant mapped a portion of Lake Victoria. On July 28, 1862, Speke, not accompanied ...
Even after Speke had seen the waters of Victoria coursing over Ripon Falls and down the Nile, however, there were some who remained unconvinced that Herodotus’s fabled fountains had in fact been found. Burton was a leading critic: Speke had not, he said, followed the Nile the entire way from Victoria to Gondokoro. At a meeting of the British Associ...
In 1874–1877, Henry Morton Stanley mounted a new expedition and took a boat along the entire shore of Lake Victoria; he established that Lake Tanganyika and the Nile were not connected in any way, and he explored the headwaters of Lake Edward. It was now proven that Speke had been right all along and that the Nile flowed from Lake Victoria via Ripo...
In 1854, Speke obtained overseas leave and made his first voyage to Africa. He wanted to cross the Gulf of Aden and collect specimens in Somaliland for his family's natural history museum in Somerset. However, he was denied permission for this journey as Somaliland was considered rather dangerous.
May 9, 2018 · In an attack in 1855 by Somali on the British camp near Berbera, Speke almost died from wounds before he and Burton fled to Aden. Early Explorations. Speke served as a captain in a Turkish regiment at Kertch during the Crimean War (1855-1856) and then returned to Africa as second-in-command of Burton's expedition to the lakes of the eastern ...
