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James Bruce, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773. ... Life
James Bruce, (1730-1794) was born to a wealthy landowning gentleman of Scotland. ... Bruce wanted to do this because he was well aware of the fact that Europeans had no knowledge of the Nile’s source. ... This was enough to prompt him to travel to the interior in search of the source of the Nile, something he could not have done had he stayed on as consul. ... From there he decided to go in search of the Nile’s source. ... Ali gave him the letters of introduction which he would need as he passed through various parts of Ethiopia in his search for the source of the Nile. ... and from there he traveled to the “springs of Geesh, where he assumed the (white) Nile has its source. For this was not the source of the powerful White Nile, but the Blue Nile, and furthermore, the “Portuguese Jesuit, Father Paez, had been to Geesh, as Bruce unreasonably attempted to disprove. ... One of the most telling comments on Bruce’s travels was made by Lord Sheffield to Edward Gibbon: “Banks objects to the Botany, Rennell to the Geography, Cambridge to the History, the Greeks to the Greek etc.
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