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Map of the discovery of the sources of the Nile

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Mapa Publicado en "Historia National Geographic" número 133 .

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In 1858, John H. Speke reached Lake Victoria Falls, which gave origin to the Nile.

After two and a half years of suffering all kinds of
penalties in the interior of Africa, John H. Speke
James A. Grant were greeted as heroes in
London. They had located the sources of the Nile!