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Indri Debono was the first white man in recorded history to have discovered the fountainhead - the source of the Nile! He never bothered to record this exceptional discovery and we only know of it through the memoirs of Speke; the man credited with the feat. In 1862 Indri reached the Ripon and Murchison Falls, the outlets of Lake Victoria. Indri Debono (or Andrea) was from Malta. |
Indri Debono was the first white man in recorded history to have discovered the fountainhead - the source of the Nile! He never bothered to record this exceptional discovery and we only know of it through the memoirs of Speke; the man credited with the feat. In 1862 Indri reached the Ripon and Murchison Falls, the outlets of Lake Victoria. Indri Debono (or Andrea) was from Malta. |
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Are you sure about this? Rippon Falls used to be the outlet of the Nile from Lake Victoria, before it was drowned out by the Owen Falls Dam, but Murchison Falls isn't - it's on the White Nile but several hundred miles further downstream. SidneyStratton |
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Indri Debono was the first white man in recorded history to have discovered the fountainhead - the source of the Nile! He never bothered to record this exceptional discovery and we only know of it through the memoirs of Speke; the man credited with the feat. In 1862 Indri reached the Ripon and Murchison Falls, the outlets of Lake Victoria. Indri Debono (or Andrea) was from Malta.
Are you sure about this? Rippon Falls used to be the outlet of the Nile from Lake Victoria, before it was drowned out by the Owen Falls Dam, but Murchison Falls isn't - it's on the White Nile but several hundred miles further downstream. SidneyStratton