Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 55
thesmall district ofUquimba, where hefound workers iniron, and learned thatthe great lake wasnear at hand. On the30th of July, 1858,he stood upon itsshores. At first abay, filled with smallislands, the watersgrew in breadth as he advanced, until, from the summitof a cape 250 feet in height, he saw… … The Discovery of the Victoria Nyanza 31 Burton, whose notices of Speke in his narrativeare always in singularly bad taste, and often unjustlydisparaging, gives, on the whole, an impartial accountof the great lake, the discovery of which — not byhimself — seems to have seriously annoyed him.This…
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