Stanley and livingstone and th
Stanley and livingstone and thHenry Morton Stanley is most famous for saying the words �Dr. Livingstone I presume?� when in 1871 he finally found Dr. David Livingstone in western Tanzania. Stanley was born John Rowlands in 1840 in Wales. His childhood was poor and deprived with both parents deserting him and leaving him to grow up in relatives�homes or institutions. He was constantly rejected and beaten which toughened him up but also made him look for admiration and affection. At the age of sixteen he went to New Orleans on a ship which he considered a nightmare to live on. He eventually met a man named Henry Morton Stanley who helped him get a job and took care of John and was practically like a father to John. After a few years he served in the Civil War. By now John Rowlands had changed his name to Henry Morton Stanley. He took a job with the New York Herald and was sent to Africa as a correspondent. He was then sent around the Mediterranean and then to Great Britain. In Britain he was given the orders to find the missionary Dr. Livingstone in Africa.
David Livingstone showed his perseverance and resilience from the start where as a ten-year old he was put to work in the cotton mills near Glasgow, Scotland. Unlike the other children who often died or grew up illiterate, he taught himself by reading books until he reached medical school in 1838 where he trained to become a doctor around the age of 25.
He was also fairly religious and after he became a doctor he volunteered to be a missionary in China but instead was sent to South Africa. He wasn�t a very successful missionary and only had one convert who lapsed. After two years he decided to send his wife and children to Britain and he continued to explore Africa in hope of spreading the Christian message to other people. He was slowly becoming less interested in his missionary work and really wanted to just explore. He went on to be the first European to cross Africa and when he arrived back in Great Britain everyone congratulated him, but he longed to return to Africa. He started another expedition of the Zambesi River. When Dr. Livingstone had first traveled the Zambesi and made his trans-continental journey he had missed Kebrasa Rapids, which made the river impassable beyond this point. The Zambesi was too shallow for the main boat of the expedition and once they reached the Rapids the river was completely impassable without going round them to travel unless by land. The mission was a failure from the start and very disappointing. The last mission Livingstone went on was an attempt to find out whether the Lualuba River flowed to the Nile or to Congo. Unfortunately Livingstone...
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