Henry Morton Stanley, who had been sent…

October 1871 CE

Henry Morton Stanley, who had been sent to find Livingstone by the New York Herald newspaper in 1869, locates Livingstone in the town of Ujiji on the shores of Lake Tanganyika on October 27, 1871, greeting him with the now famous words "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" to which he responds "Yes, and I feel thankful that I am here to welcome you."

(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.)

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