Film lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

In the movie "Mountains of the Moon" some hardships the Europeans faced while traviling was being killed by the locals but mostly the disese from the water or the Misquitos. It is sort of strange that the source of the Nile river is called Lake Victoria is weird because it already has a name but the Europeans just call it lake Victoria.
The technologicly advance that the British had over the Africans was that the British had many many guns and the Africans had spears. This is why the British eventualy won because the British created the machine gun which shot faster than a spear.