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Henry Morton Stanley's first trans-Africa expedition
Between 1874 and 1877 Henry Morton Stanley traveled Central Africa east to west, exploring Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika and the Lualaba and Congo rivers.[1] He covered 7,000 miles (11,000 km) from Zanzibar in the east to Boma at the mouth of the Congo in the west.
The expedition resolved several open questions concerning the geography of Central Africa, including identifying the source of the Nile, which he proved was not the Lualaba and is in fact the source of the Congo River.
Stanley livingston biography african
Previous African journey
This was Stanley's second journey in central Africa. In 1871–72 he had searched for and successfully found the missionary and explorer David Livingstone. In his publications, Stanley described greeting him with the famous words: "Dr.
Livingstone, I presume?", but his report in this is disputed.[2][3]
Objectives
Stanley's journey had four principal aims,[4] to:
- Explore