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10 Νοε 2016 · Sensing that he had found his man, he approached, extended his hand and asked a now-famous question: “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” When the stranger answered in the affirmative, Stanley let...
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Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta allegedly spent nearly 30...
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Dr. Livingstone, I presume?, a famous greeting of Henry Morton Stanley upon locating David Livingstone in Africa.
“Dr Livingstone I presume?” Dr. Livingstone was a linguist, a doctor, a missionary and an explorer. The man became the myth that became the legend who is renowned to this day for opening Africa up to the West, exposing some of its great mysteries and learning some of its great secrets.
“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?” is the now-famous greeting spoken on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in November 1871 by Welsh-American journalist and explorer Henry M. Stanley. The moment was the culmination of Stanley’s expedition to locate explorer and missionary David Livingstone, who had been missing in Africa for more than four years.
Stanley swore he uttered the words, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume,” but the page pertaining to that moment was torn out of his journal. It is possible that it went missing in an act of...
4 Μαρ 2018 · Explorer David Livingstone, born on this day, spawned one of the most famous encounters when he was found in Africa by journalist Henry Stanley.
Stanley found David Livingstone on 10 November 1871 in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania. He later claimed to have greeted him with the now-famous line, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
