John Hanning Speke Quotes & Sayings

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11 most famous John Hanning Speke quotes and sayings (soldier). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

John Hanning Speke Quotes
“The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen.”
John Hanning Speke Quotes
“So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.”
John Hanning Speke Quotes
“Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.”
John Hanning Speke Quotes
“In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa.”
John Hanning Speke Quotes
“Each tribe has its characteristics, it is true.”
John Hanning Speke Quotes
“I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation.”
John Hanning Speke Quotes
“I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.”
John Hanning Speke Quotes
“The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.”
John Hanning Speke Quotes
“The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion.”
John Hanning Speke Quotes
“My first occupation was to map the country.”

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