On This Day November 10

In January 1866, the missionary and explorer David Livingstone traveled to Africa to seek the source of the Nile. By 1871 he had been lost to the world for over five years and had trekked 30,000 miles in his attempt to find the river's source. The journalist H.M. Stanley eventually found Livingstone at Ujiji, on the bank of Lake Tanganyika in present day Tanzania on November 10, 1871, and greeted him with the famous words "Dr Livingstone I presume."

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