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When did John Hanning Speke join Sir Richard Burton in his expeditions?

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He joined Sir Richard Burton in his expeditions to Somaliland (1854) and to E central Africa (1857-59). Together they discovered (1858) Lake Tanganyika; then Speke continued alone and discovered Lake Victoria which he believed to be a source of the Nile.

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