For the last 2 days, our class and I had watched a movie named "Mountains of the Moon". It's about 2 European men who wanted to find the source of the Nile River. The Europeans had to face dangers as they explored Africa. They had to deal with hostile tribes, a lot of mosquitoes (in the movie, one of the Europeans got a bug in its ear and he ended up with a bleeding ear), robbers, malaria (a type of disease that resulted in death for some people), and starvation. They went to Africa with guns, so they had a better advantage of conquering Africa (it's because in the past, the Africans had spears and swords for weapons).
As for Lake Victoria, it's named after a British queen because the European men had "discovered" it, even though the Africans knew about the lake. (I mean, seriously people, the lake's in Africa!) Unfortunately, one of the European men (I think it was a guy named Speek) had committed suicide when they returned back to England to tell many people of their discovery.
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