mpete

Updated: June 18, 2025

Shortly we crossed the Malagarazi river in a bark canoe at the Mpete ferry, and found that, after having travelled along this decline from Kaze about one hundred and fifty miles, we began to ascend at the eastern horn of a large crescent-shaped mass of mountains overhanging the northern half of the Tanganyika Lake, which I am now about to describe.

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