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J O U R N A L
THE D I S C O V E R Y
• THE SOURCE OF THE NILE,
C H A P T E R I.
LONDON TO ZANZIBAR, 1859.
THE DESIGN— THE PREPARATIONS— DEPARTURE— THE CAPE— THE
■ Z O l G KAFIRS — TURTLE-TURNING— CAPTURE OF A SLAYER—
■ARRIVE AT ZANZIBAR— LOCAL POLITICS AND NEWS SINCE LAST
■ VISIT— ORGANISATION OF THE EXPEDITION.
My third expedition in Africa, which was avowedly for
the purpose of establishing the truth of my assertion that
the Victoria bFyanza, which I discovered on the 30 th July
1858, would eventually prove to be the source of the Nile,
may be said to have commenced on the 9th May 1859,
the first day after my return to England from my second
expedition, when, at the invitation of Sir R. I. Murchison,
Mcalled at his house to show him my map for the information
of the Royal Geographical Society. Sir Roderick,
I need only say, at once accepted my views; and, knowing
my ardent desire to prove to the world, by actual in-
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