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In 1866, Livingstone, already 53 and a living legend, set off to locate the source of the world’s longest river, the Nile. An eager public waited for news of his progress, and waited, and waited. Finally, in 1869, the New York Herald dispatched dashing war reporter Henry Morton Stanley to Africa in search of Livingstone — and the scoop of the century. On October 27, 1871, Stanley “discovered” Livingstone at the village of Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika, greeting him with the now-famous words:
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