November 10th, 1871
Sir Henry Morton Stanley GCB (born John Rowlands; 28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904) was a Welsh-American explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator, author and politician who was famous for his exploration of Central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone
In 1866, the New York Herald newspaper sent Henry Stanley to Africa with the mission of finding David Livingstone, who had been exploring and conducting missionary work in Africa but had not been heard from in several years. Stanley’s search for Livingstone was challenging, and he faced many obstacles in the African wilderness.
David Livingstone FRGS FRS (19 March 1813 – 4 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa, who wanted to abolish slavery; one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era.
Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
Stanley found David Livingstone on 10 November 1871 in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania in the town of Ujiji.
As the story goes, upon meeting Livingstone, Stanley greeted him with the famous phrase “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” Livingstone responded with gratitude for the supplies and news from the outside world that Stanley brought.
However, this line does not appear in his journal from the time—the two pages directly following the recording of his initial spotting of Livingstone were torn out of the journal at some point—and it is likely that Stanley simply embellished the pithy line sometime afterwards
