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vexatious delays, and had been subjected to numberless 
exactions. These, Baker found to be repeated, and even 
surpassed in his case, for, to crown all his demands, Kam- 
rasi made a proposition to exchange wives. Baker met this 
demand with the presentation of a loaded pistol, assuring 
Kamrasi, that if he mentioned Lady Baker again, he should 
be instantly shot dead. This incident proves how full of 
danger African exploration is for ladies. 
Speke explored the Victoria Nyanza in 1858, for the first 
time, but meeting with objections to his statements, re- 
turned to the continent in i860, in company with Grant, to 
verify and add to his former explorations. They then met 
with M'tesa, king of Uganda, and formed by no means a 
flattering opinion of that potentate, for his conduct to them 
was anything but encouraging or conciliatory. Although 
fully exploring the Victoria Nyanza, their solution was not 
accepted in all quarters ; as by many it was believed that 
the Albert Nyanza and Lake Tanganyika were one and the 
same sheet of water. One party of geographers held to this 
opinion, while another section believed that they were really 
distinct lakes. The questions of the sources of the Nile were 
still unsettled, and an Anglo-American expedition was fitted 
out, with Mr. Henry Stanley at its head, to decide the matter. 
The New York Herald^ and the London Daily Telegraph 
furnished Mr. Stanley with funds for this enterprise. Two 
years previously, he had found Livingstone, and had achieved 
fame by the way in which he had accomplished that feat. 
He went at this task with a will, and started from Bagamoyo 
on the Zanzibar coast, on the 17th November, 1874, 
with a retinue of 356 souls, prepared to win his way by 
force of arms or tongue, through the continent to the goal 
of his ambition. Difficulties came upon him thick and 
fast. With the people of Ituru, he had to fight a three 
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