 In the late 1860s, the famous British explorer and missionary David Livingstone failed in his attempt to verify Speke's discovery, instead pushing too far west and entering the River Congo system instead.Ultimately, the Welsh-American explorer Henry Morton Stanley, on an expedition funded by the "New York Herald" newspaper, confirmed the truth of Speke's discovery, circumnavigating the lake and reporting the great outflow at Ripon Falls on the lake's northern shore.The only outflow for Lake Victoria is at Jinja, Uganda, where it forms the Victoria Nile.