Henry Stanley, a well-known African explorer, started out as a reporter for the New York Herald. His paper sent him to Africa to search for Dr. David Livingstone, a missionary and explorer who had been missing for years. Most believed he was dead. As he searched, Stanley wrote accounts of his adventures which were printed in the Herald. These accounts helped to stimulate a popular interest in the exploration of Africa in Britain and America. When he found Dr. Livingstone, Stanley reported this famous exchange.
So I did that which I thought was most dignified. I pushed back the crowds, and, passing from the rear, walked down a living avenue of people until I came in front of the semicircle of Arabs, in the front of which stood the white man with the grey beard. As I advanced slowly towards him, I noticed he was pale, looked wearied, had a grey beard, wore a bluish cap with a faded gold band round it, had on a red-sleeved waistcoat and a pair of grey tweed trousers. I would have run to him, only I was a coward in the presence of such a mob---would have embraced him, only he being an Englishman, I did not know how he would receive me; so I did what cowardice and false pride suggested was the best thing---walked deliberately to him, took off my hat, and said:---
"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
"Yes," said he, with a kind smile, lifting his cap slightly.
I replace my hat on my head, and he puts on his cap, and we both grasp hands, and I then say aloud:
--- "I thank God, Doctor, I have been permitted to see you." He answered, "I feel thankful that I am here to welcome you."
Stanley and the Livingstons's Friend Space (Top 12)
Well.. it looks like you guys found a replacement for me... looks like he sucks... figures really, who could fill the black hole of a void I left behind?
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