Word: stanleys
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Another Scot, the missionary-doctor David Livingstone, reached the Chambezi, the ultimate source of the Congo, in 1867. But it remained for his "rescuer," Henry Morton Stanley, to trace the Congo from its source to its mouth. In 1874 the onetime journalist, whose "discovery" of the supposedly lost Livingstone had made him an international celebrity, set out from England on a journey to resolve the riddle of the Nile's origin and to determine if the Lualaba, which Livingstone had believed to be a branch of the Nile, was really the upper Congo...
...October 1876 Stanley reached the Lualaba, launched a demountable boat dubbed the Lady Alice and began paddling...
...trip took 999 days, through dense rain forest and showers of spears and poisoned arrows from hostile natives. It took the expedition three weeks to descend Stanley Falls, and more than a month, much of it spent carrying the boats, to get through and around Livingstone Falls...
...Stanley's feat left no doubts as to the origins and course of the Congo. It also opened up the country to exploitation. Trade had long been carried out on the lower part of the river, including a lively traffic in slaves that the Portuguese continued after other European nations had abandoned the practice. But following Stanley's expedition, the rape of the Congo began in earnest...
...Skinner--Science Center B at 4 Stanley Hoffman, Karol Syndzieiorz, and Richard Pipes--Emerson...