[GRANT (James Augustus)] &
MAYALL (John Jabez Edwin).
[Captain James Grant carte de visite.]
In 1846, Grant obtained a commission in the 8th native Bengal infantry and during his time in India he met John Hanning Speke, they became friends and hunted tigers together. In 1859, Speke invited him to join his expedition to confirm that Lake Victoria was the source of the Nile, a fact he was unable to conclusively establish on his expedition with Burton the preceding year. Grant travelled with Speke from Zanzibar to Cairo. The two were often separated and, in those instances, Grant had command of his section of the column. He collected some seven hundred species of plants along the way, eighty of which were unknown to the scientific establishment.
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