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When did Sir Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke reach Lake Tanganyika?
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Sir Richard Burton
Richard Burton, c. 1880.
Sir Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke became the first Europeans to reach Lake Tanganyika in February 1858.1