79o

Updated: May 22, 2025

I sent all the freshest camels off to Goriat for the remaining property, with orders that everybody should return on the following day. At this height the temperature of the air was very delightful, the range at noon being only 79o. I spent the whole day specimen-hunting, and found the rocks were full of fossil shells.

John Hanning Speke - What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile