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time. On November 9tli he was permitted to leave, followed 

 the Nile to Karuma Falls, thence struck across country to 

 De Bono's trading-station, and soon came into view of the 

 river once more. At Gondokoro he met Samuel Baker and 

 gave him the information that he had gathered as to the 

 Luta Nzigc (now the Albert Nyanza), which he considered a 

 mere backwater of the Nile. He also planned Baker's route 

 for him, and handed over to him a map which he had 

 prepared, the result being the discovery of tlie Albert Lake 

 by the latter. From Khartoum Speke forwarded a report to 

 the Royal Geographical Society, while on his return to 

 England he published his discoveries in full at their Special 

 Meeting held on June 2()th, 1863. The Founders' Medal of 

 the Society was bestowed upon him, as well as another by 

 the King of Sardinia, who had met him at Alexandria. 



Besides various articles in periodicals, Speke published a 

 book entitled ' What led to the Discovery of the Nile ' and 

 another called ' Journal of the Discovery of the Source of 

 the Nile,' He was criticized by English and foreign 

 geographers for not having followed the river in all its 

 windings, and a discussion was arranged ,to take place 

 between him and Burton at the Bath Meeting of the British 

 Association in September, 1864 ; but before the day 

 appointed Speke accidentally shot himself while partridge- 

 shooting at Neston Park, and was buried on September 26th. 



Capt. Speke contributed a paper on the birds which he met 

 with m Somali-land to 'The Ibis ' for 1800 (p. 243). 



For fuller details the reader should consult the excellent 

 life of Speke in the ' Dictionary of National Biography/ to 

 which the writer of this notice is much indebted. 



