Muhammad Ali framed Nile exploration in terms of personal and national fame.

Evidence

In a letter to Khurshid Pasha, Muhammad `Alï wrote that “each of the greatest of men who have come to this world and then left it, left a trace on which their name lies, or their highest hopes, or their fame.” To that lofty end, he instructed Khurshid Pasha to prepare for the exploration of the Nile’s origins, not only for the promise of promotion and personal fame this would guarantee Khurshid Pasha but also for Egypt, in its new state of “fluorescence”: “It is incumbent upon you to extend the greatest of your efforts to heighten and augment her situation.” — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 193

Categorization

• CANDY: The kingly appeal to leave a ‘trace’ of one’s name is a vivid, self-contained rhetorical bit.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 193