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Excerpt from Soldiering and Sport in Uganda: 1909-1910
Less than sixty years ago the country of Uganda was utterly unknown to the civilized world. NO European had ever set foot upon its soil, and geographers found no place for it upon the map Of Africa. All that part of the great continent where the Victoria N yanza and the countries surrounding it exist was a blank. Later on vague stories of a large sheet of water and of an organized kingdom somewhere near the equator began to reach the outside world, but it was not until 1858 that John Hanning Speke, the explorer, travelling from the south, reached the coast Of the great inland sea, and rightly believed that he had found at last the source Of the great river of Egypt, and had solved a mystery of the ages. A few years later Speke and Grant met Sir Samuel Baker on the western shores of this great lake in the kingdom Of Uganda.
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Less than sixty years ago the country of Uganda was utterly unknown to the civilized world. NO European had ever set foot upon its soil, and geographers found no place for it upon the map Of Africa. All that part of the great continent where the Victoria N yanza and the countries surrounding it exist was a blank. Later on vague stories of a large sheet of water and of an organized kingdom somewhere near the equator began to reach the outside world, but it was not until 1858 that John Hanning Speke, the explorer, travelling from the south, reached the coast Of the great inland sea, and rightly believed that he had found at last the source Of the great river of Egypt, and had solved a mystery of the ages. A few years later Speke and Grant met Sir Samuel Baker on the western shores of this great lake in the kingdom Of Uganda.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - Edgar George Dion Lardner
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ISBN - 9780266157359
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm
Page Count - 420
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ISBN - 9781330345146
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