Word: nyanza
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...last big undertaking, met with incredible difficulties from the start. He was underfinanced, caravan mutinies and desertions were constant. On the last stages he was half-blinded and paralyzed by fever. Quarrels with his lieutenant John Hanning Speke, who went on alone to discover Victoria Nyanza, echoed for 20 years after. To escape them, Burton went to Salt Lake City to have a look at the Mormons. Brigham Young's harem reminded him of a "large English hunting stable" and after a brief taste of the prevailing moral strictness he sailed for home. Between trips he had asked Isabel...
...prehistoric times to the present, its upper reaches have given men gold. (Estimated annual revenue in Ethiopia: $400,000.) And its recorded history is the world's oldest: 6,000 years. The Nile has two sources, both undiscovered until recent times. Source of the White Nile, Lake Victoria Nyanza, was found by Speke (1862); source of the Blue Nile, near Lake Tana in Ethiopia, by Samuel Baker (1864). At Khartoum the two branches join, go on to form in the desert the oasis of Egypt...
First scenes were acted at Murchison Falls, 150 mi. up the Nile from Victoria Nyanza. Miss Booth acted in a skimpy garment made of monkey fur. Elephant grass cut her bare feet and legs, the sun blistered her bare thighs, arms and back; African insects gouged her everywhere. The heroine rejoiced when a cloudburst destroyed the camp, two hippopotamuses trampled the debris, and Director Van Dyke ordered the company to move to the Belgian Congo...
...army life soon bored him; he was always putting in for risky assignments: investigations in disguise among the natives, a journey to Harrar in Somaliland, whence no white man had ever returned; searching for the source of the Nile (his companion Speke got the credit for discovering Victoria Nyanza, but Burton led the expedition). He made the pilgrimage to Mecca in disguise, went to Salt Lake City in the reign of Brigham Young, made an engineering trip to Iceland, wrote many a book on erotic craft & customs of the Orient. Some spoke of him as "ruffian Dick" and "that blackguard...
...little more than half way through the continent we take a long trip on foot to the north and then proceed east north of Victoria Nyanza, finally coming out on the coast at Monabassa...