Editing John Hanning Speke (section)

===Scientific works===
*{{cite book|last=Speke|first=John Hanning |author-link=John Hanning Speke|title=Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UOqYYfpZ5WYC&pg=PR1|year=1863|publisher=Blackwood and Sons|display-authors=0}}

Much of Speke's ''Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile'' is a description of the physical features of Africa's races, in whose condition he found "a strikingly existing proof of the Holy Scriptures."<ref name="Gourevitch1999">{{cite book|last=Gourevitch|first=Philip |title=We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories From Rwanda|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Iu5R6TQlKUC|year=1999|publisher=Picador|isbn=978-0-312-24335-7}}</ref> Living alongside the locals, Speke claimed to have found a "superior race" of "men who were as unlike as they could be from the common order of the natives" due to their "fine oval faces, large eyes, and high noses, denoting the best blood of [[Ethiopia|Abyssinia]]" –; that is, Ethiopia.<ref name="Gourevitch1999" /><ref name="Redmond1997">{{Cite journal | title = Speke's Journal, reviewed | last = Redmond | first = Sean | journal=The Journal of African Travel-Writing|issue=3 | date = September 1997 |pages= 87–91 | access-date = 2018-07-17 | url = http://www.unc.edu/~ottotwo/Spekereview.html  }}</ref> This "race" comprised many tribes, including the Watusi ([[Tutsi]]). Speke described their physical appearances as having retained{{spaced ndash}}despite the hair-curling and skin-darkening effects of intermarriage{{spaced ndash}}"a high stamp of Asiatic feature, of which a marked characteristic is a bridged instead of bridgeless nose".<ref name="Gourevitch1999" />