stated. He was accompanied this time b y an
o ld brother officer in India, Captain James Augustus
Grant.
T h e expedition under Speke and Grant set
out from Zanzibar on the 25th September i8 6 o ._
On the 23rd January 1861, it arrived at th e !
house occupied by Burton and S p ek e ’s E x - 1
pedition, in Tabora, Unyanyembe, having travers- 1
ed nearly the entire distance along the s am e l
route that had been adopted formerly. In t h e l
middle o f May the journey to Karagwe b e g a n .l
After a stay full o f interest with Rumanika, k in g l
o f Karagwe , they followed a route which d id !
not permit them even a view o f L ak e V ic to r ia ,!
until they caught sight o f the g re a t lake n e a r !
Meruka, on the 3,1st January 1862. From t h i s l
point, the expedition, up to its arrival at th e |
court o f Mtesa, emperor o f Uganda, must have
caught several distant views o f the lake, though
not travelling near its shores. During a little
excursion from the Emperor’s capital, th ey also
discovered a long broad inlet, which is henceforth
known as Murchison Ray, o n its northern
coast. ,
On the 7th July 1862, the two travellers
started in a north-easterly direction, away from
the la k e , and Sp ek e states that he arrived at
Urondogani on the 21st. From this point he
marched up the river along th e left hank, and
reached the Ripon Falls at the outlet o f'L a k e
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Victoria on the 20th July. He thus sums up
the result and net value o f the explorations o f
himself and companion in the years i860— 62:—
“ The Expedition had now performed its
functions. I saw that old Father Nile without
any doubt risds in the Victoria N ’yanza, and as
I had foretold, that L a k e is the great source o f
the holy river which cradled the first expounder
o f our religious belief. . ... . T h e most remote
waters, or top-head o f the N ile , ;is the southern
end o f the lake, situated close on the 3? lat,,
which g iv es to the Nile the surprising length in
direct measurement,, rolling over 34 degrees o f
latitude, o f above 2300 miles, or more than one-
eleventh o f the dircumference of our globe. Now,
from the southern p oint round b y the west, to
where the great Nile stream rises, there is only
one feeder o f any importance, and that is the
Kitangule River; while from the southernmost
point round b y the east, to the strait, there are
no rivers o f any importance.” . * . .
He christened the falling effluent where it drops
from the level o f the lake, and escapes northerly
into the Victoria Nile— “ Ripon Falls,” in honour
o f the Earl o f Ripon, who was President o f the
Ro ya l Geographical S o c ie ty when the expedition
was organized, and the arm o f th eL a k e from which
the Victoria Nile issued— Napoleon Channel, as
a token o f respect to the Paris Geographical