Who Discovered the Source of the Nile?
Anon
Genre: | Poetry, Drollery |
Subjects: | Physical Geography, Discovery, Controversy |
Responding to Charles T Beke's answer to the question posed in the title, Punch insists that since '"Guess" is a worse dog than "Seek"' and Beke only 'marked in some map / What Speke went to', then he 'musn't cheek Grant and Speke'. | |
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