He negotiated with local chiefs like the Bagandan leader Mutesa to insure the safety of his men, and often worked with others such as Florence von Sass, James Baker, and James Grant, during his travels.
On the day he was to debate the veracity of his greatest discovery he shot himself in a hunting accident. He negotiated with local chiefs like the Bagandan leader Mutesa to insure the safety of his men, and often worked with others such as Florence von Sass, James Baker, and James Grant, during his travels. He began his career in the Punjab, but came to Africa to survey Somaliland. Although he was injured during that expedition he eventually sighted Lake Tanganyika and went on to identify Ripon Falls as the exit point for another body of water after splitting up from Richard Burton. FTP, name this British explorer, the first European to sight Lake Victoria and identify it as the source of the Nile.
On the day he was to debate the veracity of his greatest discovery he shot himself in a hunting accident.
Sir John Hanning Speke