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Source of the Nile is a board game for 1–6 players in which the players take on the roles of 19th-century European explorers in Africa. The object of the game is to organize an expedition to Africa, make an important discovery, return to Europe to publish a report, then organize another expedition.
Sir Samuel White Baker KCB FRS FRGS (8 June 1821 – 30 December 1893) was an English explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist.He also held the titles of Pasha and Major-General in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt.
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Title page Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile by James Bruce, 1790 His Travels was issued in 1790, after he retired to his home at Kinnaird, at the urging of his friend Daines Barrington . It was published in five octavo volumes, lavishly illustrated, but was ridiculed by scholars and other travellers as being exaggerated nonsense.
However, the Blue Nile is the source of most of the water of the Nile downstream, containing 80% of the water and silt. The White Nile is longer and rises in the Great Lakes region. It begins at Lake Victoria and flows through Uganda and South Sudan. The Blue Nile begins at Lake Tana in Ethiopia [11] and flows into Sudan from the southeast.
[The Nile river] comes from a very huge lake of the [African] lands). Map of the Nile river showing the location of Jinja in Uganda (near the Murchison Falls) Furthermore, Seneca wrote that the legionaries told him that the water of the Nile River, that jumped through two huge rocks, was coming from a large lake in Africa.
Blue Nile Pear Diamond Solitaire Engagement Ring, 2.75 ct. In addition to its custom designs, the brand offers a selection of ready-to-ship engagement rings, including this pear-shaped solitaire.
James Bruce of Kinnaird (14 December 1730 – 27 April 1794) was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who confirmed the source of the Blue Nile.He spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethiopia and in 1770 became the second European to trace the origins of the Blue Nile from Egypt and Sudan, after the Spanish Pedro Paez.