When the man who purchased him died, he made his way into the local Sultan's army, and eventually traveled back to Africa, where he used his resourcefulness, linguistic prowess and raw courage to forge a living as a guide. This was Sidi Mubarak Bombay, who was enslaved and shipped from his home village in East Africa to India. whose exploits were even more extraordinary. There was a third man on both expeditions. Speke was a young aristocrat and Army officer determined to make his mark. Burton spoke twenty-nine languages, and was a decorated soldier. Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke were sent by the Royal Geographical Society to claim the prize for England. European powers sent off waves of explorations intended to map the unknown corners of the globe- and extend their colonial empires. About the Book "For millennia the location of the Nile River's headwaters was shrouded in mystery.
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