#HenryMortonStanley found, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1871, fellow explorer #DavidLivingstone at Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania. Both men spent years hunting for the sources of the #Nile River, and both contributed substantially to the violent 19th century European conquest of #Africa.
"Dr Livingstone, I presume?"
🌍 #OTD in #History 10 November 1871, newspaper reporter #HenryMortonStanley finally encountered the long-missing missionary and explorer #DavidLivingstone at Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa, delivering his immortal line.
"Dr Livingstone, I presume?"
🌍 Welsh-American journalist, #explorer, soldier, colonial administrator, author, and politician, Sir #HenryMortonStanley, who famously discovered Livingstone in Africa, was #BOTD 28 January 1841. #Explore #History #Discovery
The first estimates of the population of the Congo Basin by #HenryMortonStanley were greatly overestimated. Stanley did this in order to secure the necessary investments for his colonial project. The first real census was conducted in 1924 by the Belgian administration.
