Henry Morton Stanley, who had been sent…
October 1871 CE
(These famous words may have been a fabrication, as Stanley will later tear out the pages of this encounter in his diary. Even Livingstone's account of this encounter does not mention these words. However, the phrase appears in a New York Herald editorial dated August 10, 1872, and the Encyclopædia Britannica and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography both quote it without questioning its veracity. The words are famous because of their tongue-in-cheek humorous nature: Dr. Livingstone is the only white person for hundreds of miles.)