The Stanley of Livingstone

Henry Morton Stanley had a job to do and that
was find Dr. Livingstone.
Livingstone was somewhere in Africa and there
was a story to be told.

But I run ahead of myself.
Stanley was not always Stanley.
Born John Rowlands in Denbigh, Wales - at the age of 18
he made his way to the United States.
He was later to take the name Stanley from a wealthy
American trader whom he had befriended.

Military service in the American Civil War was followed
by a journalism career and Stanley soon became a favourite
with James Gordon Bennett,
Bennett was the founder of the New York Herald and it was
Bennett's son who instructed Stanley to find Dr. Livingstone.

Arriving in Zanzibar where a search expedition was outfitted,
Stanley and his expedition started off on 21 March, 1871.

10 November 1871 at a small village on the shore of Lake Tanganyika,
Mr. Stanley finds an old man with a white beard.
Raising his hat he greets the Doctor with the immortal words
"Dr. Livingstone, I presume".

Livingstone today is a booming tourism town.

Vying for the tourist dollar and the real estate around the
Zambezi river are hotels, waterfront lodges, bush camps,
action and adventure safari companies.

Creating quite a stir is a new development of more hotels,
chalets and golf course in the Mosi oa Tunya National Park.

Not sure if this is the legacy Livingstone had in mind
when he said "No one can imagine the beauty of the view
from anything witnessed in England. It had never been seen
before by European eyes; but scenes so lovely must have been
gazed upon by angels in their flight".