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Speke was most remarkable for its loyalty and 

 intensity. They were fine manly fellows, and 1 

 can see them now in my mind's eye, as they came 

 to take a final leave, when I knocked two nails 

 into the side of a cupboard as they stood side by 

 side with their backs to it, to mark their respective 

 heights and as a memento of them when away. 

 As is well known, they followed the Nile, not 

 however without a break, from the Lake into Egypt. 

 This break, and the hypothetical placement of the 

 " Mountains of the Moon," whose position Speke 

 saw reason to modify in a second map, gave an 

 opening to criticism of which bitter use was made. 

 Coming down the Nile, Speke and Grant met 

 Captain, afterwards Sir Samuel, Baker (1821-1893) 

 and his large party going up it, and were able to 

 give him timely and valuable information. I do 

 not speak more of Sir Samuel's magnificent work, 

 because it did not fall closely within my own ken, 

 but will conclude what has to be said about Burton 

 and Speke. 



In the year 1864 the British Association met at 

 Bath, at which Burton was to read a paper severely 

 criticising Speke's work. Speke was staying in the 

 neighbourhood with a shooting pa'rty, and was invited 

 to take part in the discussion. It is the custom that 

 on each morning, a little before the President and 

 Committee of the several Sections of the British 

 Association take their seats, they meet in a separate 

 room to discuss matters that require immediate settle- 

 ment, and to select the papers that are to be read on 

 the following day. On the present occasion this 

 business had been finished, and Sir James Alexander 



