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Show The Nile's Source Tlie question of the source of the Nile Is at once the oldest and the most recent of geography. The first European Euro-pean to lay claim to having discovered discov-ered the true source was James Bruce, he Scotch explorer believed that the middle one of the three brunches, -called the Blue Nile, was the true river. riv-er. It was later discovered that he had been mistaken in his assumptions. The ancients believed that the westernmost western-most branch, called the White Nile, was the true Nile. The ancients were right and Bruce was wrong. Many explorers sought to trace the White Nile to its source, but the greatest discovery dis-covery of all, that the Nile really rises In south latitude and crosses the equator, equa-tor, was made by Captains Grant and Speke, who in 1838 discovered Lake "Victoria Nynnza. |