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On March 21, , Henry Morton Stanley set out from the African port of Bagamoyo on what he hoped would be a career-making adventure. The year-old journalist had arrived on the “Dark Continent” at the behest of the New York Herald newspaper, yet he wasn’t chasing any ordinary scoop.

He had been placed in charge of a grand expedition to find the explorer David Livingstone, who had vanished in the heart of Africa several years earlier.

Stanley, a Welsh-born orphan who had previously fought on both sides of the American Civil War, took to the mission with gusto.

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Despite never having set foot in Africa before, he assembled a caravan of over porters and struck out into the unknown. “Wherever [Livingstone] is, be sure I shall not give up the chase,” he later wrote to the New York Herald’s editor.

“If alive you shall hear what he has to say. If dead I will find him and bring his bones to you.”

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