In November 1871, journalist Henry Morton Stanley located the missing missionary David Livingstone in the depths of Africa. The famous meeting launched Stanley's tumultuous career as an explorer.

The man who famously found David Livingstone was Henry Morton Stanley, an Anglo-American journalist and explorer. In 1869, Stanley was commissioned by James Gordon Bennett Jr. of the New York Herald to locate Livingstone, a legendary Scottish missionary who had been "lost" in central Africa for several years. After an arduous eight-month expedition, Stanley discovered a frail Livingstone in the town of Ujiji, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, on November 10, 1871. It was here that Stanley allegedly uttered the world-famous greeting, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" While Stanley's reportage made him an international hero, his expedition was controversial for its harsh treatment of local guides. Nonetheless, their meeting provided Livingstone with life-saving supplies and renewed international interest in the exploration of the African interior and the abolition of the East African slave trade.