As fattening is the first duty of fashionable female life, it must be duly enforced by the rod if necessary. I got up a bit of flirtation with missy, and induced her to rise and shake hands with me. Her face was lovely, but her body was as round as a ball.
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Birth: | 4th May, 1827 |
Death: | 15th September, 1864 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Army Officer, Explorer |
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John Hanning Speke was born in Bideford, Devon, England. He was an English soldier and explorer. He was an officer in the British Indian Army who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa. He is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile and was the first European to reach Lake Victoria. In 1844, he was commissioned into the British Army and posted to India, where he served under Sir Colin Campbell during the First Anglo-Sikh War.
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