Nyangwe, Congo, May 27, 1871—David Livingstone rested in the bustling marketplace in Nyangwe, a village on the shore of the LualabaRiver, on the western flank of today’s Democratic Republic of ...

The missionary traveler David Livingstone (1813-1873 ... who persuaded the illiterate Dom Pedro V, King of the Congo to sign a note in 1884. He believed it was a thank you letter for a gold ...

Henry Morton Stanley, photographed in 1872 at age 31, is best known for his epic search for the missionary David Livingstone ... the Nile (Livingstone’s theory), the Niger or the Congo (Stanley ...

Stanley (of Stanley and Livingstone fame) published Through a Dark Continent, an account of his expedition that crossed the African continent. The Boy Travellers on the Congo, written by Thomas ...