Stanley's (Henry Morton) first trans-Africa exploration
1874 CE
to 1877 CE
In 1874-1877, Henry Morton Stanley travels Africa, exploring Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika and Lualaba/Congo river.
He travela 7,000 miles (11,000 km) from Zanzibar in the east to Boma in the mouth of the Congo in the west.
He thereby solves many questions that had still been open on the central Africa geography, including those on the source of the Nile.
He proves that the Lualala river continues as the Congo river – not as the Nile.In 1871-1872, Stanley had searched for Dr. David Livingstone in central Africa, finding him and greeting with the famous (but probably made up afterwards) words: “Dr.
Livingstone, I presume?”.
Livingstone, with whom he had traveled afterwards, had died in 1873, leaving the questions unresolved.Stanley startswith about 225 people from Zanzibar near the east coast.
He is the only European of four to reach the west coast.
Apart from being accused in the press of being a murderer, his fame rises extremely high.
He proposes to open Africa by trade, so as to remove the slave trade on the continent.
Afterward he will work (travel) in Africa to advance many political interests of European states.
