2-716-580 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Livingstone's Exploration of Lake Tanganyika: The Great Missionary-Explorer found by Stanley, 1870, at Ujiji', (1901). The historic meeting between Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) Welsh explorer and journalist, and David Livingstone (1813-1873) Scottish missionary and African explorer, at Ujiji on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, 10 November 1871. Stanley had been sent to locate Livingstone, who had gone missing after being taken ill. He greeted Livingstone with the famous words: 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'. From "The Illustrated London News Record of the Glorious Reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901: The Life and Accession of King Edward VII. and the Life of Queen Alexandra". [London, 1901]