ABSTRACT
John Hanning Speke (1827-64) was born to landed gentry from Somerset and joined the Indian Army in 1844, where he fought in the Punjab campaign. At night the Waganda startled people by setting fire to the huts our men were sleeping in, but providentially did more damage to themselves than to people, for one sword only was buried in the fire, whilst their own huts, intended to be vacated in the morning, were burnt to the ground. In addition to the rod-and-line fishing, a number of men, armed with long heavy poles with two iron spikes, tied prong-fashion to one end, rushed to a place over a break in the falls, which tired fish seemed to use as a baiting-room, dashed in their forks, holding on by the shaft, and sent men down to disengage the pinned fish and relieve their spears.
