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John Hanning Speke - Academic Kids (365 words) |
 | Next he travelled to Gondokoro in southern Sudan, where he met Samuel Baker, then back to England. |
| Speke's voyage did not resolve the issue, Burton claimed that because Speke had not followed the Nile from the place it flowed out of Lake Victoria to Gondokoro, he could not be sure they were the same river. |
| A debate was planned between the two on September 16, 1864, but Speke died just one day before, of a hunting accident - although Burton and some others believed it might actually have been suicide. |
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