Sir Henry Morton Stanley

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Lost for Words Sir Henry Morton Stanley

Welsh journalist Henry Stanley is despatched by head office in New York to find a missing British explorer.

In 1865 explorer David Livingstone went in search of the sources of the Nile. Three years passed with no word of his fate, so Welsh journalist Henry Stanley of the New York Herald was despatched to track him down. By the Autumn of 1871 the errand seemed hopeless, but then word came of a white man in Ujiji, on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika.

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