Henry Morton Stanley not a straight-forward character. Denbigh, Wales, , he the son of a barmaid and a ploughman, and his real name was John Rowlands. His parents , and his mother didn't want him, so he in the workhouse. While still a young boy he and America, working as a cabin boy on a merchant ship. In New Orleans he the ship and get a job as a clerk for a kind gentleman whom he named Henry Hope Stanley. Rowlands that this man him and him his name. As Henry Morton Stanley, he the American Civil War, on both sides, and then after and various jobs he get taken on as a journalist to cover the Indian Wars that then taking place on the Great Plains in the United States of America. Stanley about his life much later when he a famous man, but many things that he seem to have been untrue. For example, there is no record of Henry Hope Stanley ever having adopted anyone and Stanley's graphic descriptions of his early life in the brutal workhouse no relation to anyone else's. At any rate, what is undeniably true is that he an extremely successful reporter and his search for Livingstone is in itself an extraordinary story. After covering another war, this time in Abyssinia, Stanley to Spain, where a revolution . There, he a telegram summoning him to Paris immediately. The owner of the New York Herald an eccentric millionaire named James Gordon Bennet Jr and he Stanley that he him to find David Livingstone. When Stanley suggested that this an expensive assignment Bennet replied, ' a thousand dollars now, and when you that draw another thousand, and when that draw another thousand, and so on, but FIND LIVINGSTONE!'
Stanley for Africa. Arriving in Zanzibar he immediately recruiting a large party to help him in his search. No expense and he quickly all the men he needed. The British consul in Zanzibar, John Kirk, who one of Livingstone's companions on the ill-fated Zambesi expedition, was unhelpful. Livingstone and Kirk as friends and now Stanley that Kirk deliberately supplies that he sending on to Livingstone. Certainly Kirk, an upper-class Englishmen, did not like this brash American journalist. Stanley obtain some information from Kirk on Livingstone's possible whereabouts, but it is still amazing that in all that vast territory he to march to precisely the spot where Livingstone .
Livingstone the complex system of lakes and rivers of central Africa. He almost sure that he the source of the Nile, the river Lualaba. In fact Livingstone wrong, the Lualaba flows into the river Congo. But he never his mistake. Wracked by fever, starvation and exhaustion he back to Ujiji, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, where he find supplies that there. To his horror he found that everything or . More dead than alive, poor Livingstone accept the hospitality of the Arab traders who him and who almost certainly slavers.
On November , Stanley Ujiji, and Livingstone his sick bed to meet him. Raising his hat Stanley to shake his hand and the immortal words: 'Dr Livingstone, I '. Livingstone at all was extraordinary, but then to greet him in this fashion, as if they casually in a London street, was either an attempt at copying the stiff upper lip of the British, which Stanley rather , or a joke. At any rate it the imagination of the world. It a catch phrase for comedians and writers indeed anybody meeting in strange or unusual circumstances. Stanley himself, when it later, simply , 'I couldn't think of anything else to say'.
Meeting Livingstone certainly Stanley's life. He , as a reporter, his sensational story and to civilisation. But Livingstone and Stanley such an instant liking to one another that he himself . In fact Stanley four months with his new friend and together they Lake Tanganyika and the surrounding countryside. These two men both from poor backgrounds; both self-educated; and both into appalling dangers, reason enough, one think, for their friendship. But they on one another as more than just friends. Stanley that he Livingstone 'paternal, almost tender¡K though I don't know much about tenderness'. He that through just knowing the older man, 'I begin to think myself somebody¡K I get as proud as I can be, as though I some great honour thrust upon me.' In a letter to a friend Livingstone Stanley's behaviour towards him 'as that of a son to a father - truly overflowing in kindness,' and he one of Stanley's Zanzibari followers, saying 'I am very happy you me my son'.
Of course eventually Stanley tell his story and the two men March 13th, Stanley to return to Zanzibar and then Europe, Livingstone to continue his exploration. They never again. Livingstone in in the jungle by the Lualaba river. Stanley's career as a reporter did not last much longer. Livingstone he Africa to continue the older man's work, eventually mapping out the whole of the Congo river. But in spite of all his exploits and adventures, it fair to say that the most exciting discovery of Stanley's life a man who for him the father that as a child. When he the great explorer's death he to Livingstone's daughter Agnes: 'I dumb and cannot describe to you the misery I feel. I him as a son and anything for him. The richest inheritance a father to his children is an honoured name. What man ever left a nobler name than Livingstone?'