STANLEY, Henry M.
In November 1871, journalist H. M. Stanley located David Livingstone in Ujiji, a village on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania. Upon returning to civilization, Stanley published this diary of his expedition, describing his adventures and discoveries in Central Africa and his four months' residence with the famous missionary. Stanley was sent by James Gordon Bennett Jr. (portrait between Contents and Introduction), the vehemently anti-British, hard-drinking 28-year-old editor of the New York Herald, who was mainly interested in proving that an American could find Livingstone, when the British apparently could not. Stanley's famous greeting, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" appears on p. 412 next to an engraving illustrating the event.
