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Home > History Fact Finder > Exploration and Settlement - Who Said, "Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?" ... Get help in the History Group ... The speaker was Welsh explorer and journalist Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904). He addressed this famous question in 1871 to Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone...
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'Dr. Livingstone I presume?' Henry Stanley describes his finding of Dr. Livingstone. ... 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?'
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David Livingstone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"I am Susi, the servant of Dr. Livingstone," said he, smiling and showing a gleaming row of teeth. ... In the meantime, the head of the expedition had halted, and the kirangozi was out of the ranks, holding his flag aloft, and Selim said to me, "I see the Doctor, sir. Oh, what an old man!
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Stanley was the consummate Englishman. It is said his first words to Livingston were, "Dr. Livingston, I presume?" ... In 1872 he wrote a small book about the adventures of his search. The book is called "How I Found Livingston". He wrote about events in foreign lands, among people of strange customs, practices, and languages.
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After dinner at Le Grenier and a night of partying at La Cave Du Roy, which was overflowing with spooks, I caught an early morning Ethiopian Airlines flight from Beirut to Addis Ababa. ... Never let it be said that the money was wasted. The Ethiopians promptly created a Highway Department and build a gigantic office...
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The fellow responsible for bringing the knowledge of victoria falls to Europe was Dr. Livingston of "Doctor Livingston I presume," fame brought to the public by the reporter Stanley who was responsible for tracking him down somewhere in the African jungle.
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As a teenager living in Sao Paulo, Brazil I owned a machete. It had a 20 inch blade, a shiny black handle and a leather sheath decorated with beads and tassels. Now Sao Paulo was a city the size of NYC at that time… a place where machetes were seldom used for any constructive purpose.
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When I decided to apply to Harvard, the first two teachers I approached for recommendations would not write them. They said that Harvard was a bunch of comunists, atheists, and snobs, and that I would flunk out. ... They also said that if I went there, I would lose my soul, which sounded fairly intriguing.
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