The movie Mountains of The Moon was about two explorers named Richard Burton and John Speke. They explored Africa to find out what was the source of the Nile river but they didn't know where to look. They faced many obstacles like insects mosquito's, tribes , diseases. They were raided by tribes and many of there men that work for them were killed, that messed they journey.
Speke had an encounter with insects and bugs because he didn't put up his mosquito net when he went to sleep. Also Burton had a spear rip across his face and left a scar across his face. after they found the lake they named it after there queen which was queen Victoria so they called it lake Victoria. The reason why after so many years they didn't change the name because so many tribes live there so the call it something in there land but they cant change the name i think. Europeans were more technology advanced and had more weapons and the Africans were using spears so they were kind of primal to the Europeans. That why they so easily conquered because they were so technologically under advanced.
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