Stanley, Sir Henry Morton
Stanley, Sir Henry Morton (1841–1904) British-US explorer of Africa, b. Wales. He emigrated to the USA at the age of 16. He became a journalist and was commissioned by the New York Herald to lead an expedition in search of David Livingstone in e Africa. The pair met in 1871. On a second expedition, Stanley led a large party from the e African lakes down the River Congo to the w coast. He returned to the area (1880) as an agent for King Leopold II, and in 1887–89 led an expedition supposedly to rescue Emin Pasha from the Sudan and pressed on, with heavy losses, to the Indian Ocean.
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