How I Found Livingstone

In March, 1871, Stanley arrived in Zanzibar to begin preparations for his search for Livingstone. Famed publisher James Gordon Bennett Jr. had agreed to fund the search, with dispatches of the adventure to be published in his paper, the New York Herald. As Stanley began his preparations to enter what he considered wild and uncharted territory, the questions began to mount:"How much money is required?""How many pagazis, or carriers?"How many soldiers?""How much cloth?""How many beads?""How much wire?""What kinds of cloth are required for the different tribes?"Sir Henry Morton Stanley, born John Rowlands in January 1841, was a Welsh-American journalist, explorer, soldier, colonial administrator, author and politician. In addition to his expedition to Livingstone, Stanley is also known for his search for the source of the Nile, work he undertook as an agent of King Leopold II of Belgium, which enabled the occupation of the Congo Basin region, and for his command of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. Stanley was knighted in 1899, 5 years before his death. Read more