We have attacked and destroyed 28 large towns, and 3 or 4 s… - Henry Morton Stanley

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We have attacked and destroyed 28 large towns, and 3 or 4 score villages.

Henry Morton Stanley

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Sir Henry Morton Stanley (28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904), a Welsh-born reporter for the New York Herald, went to Africa in search of missionary and explorer David Livingstone. He was later a British Member of Parliament. He is mainly known for his search for the source of the Nile, work he undertook as an agent of King Leopold II of Belgium, which enabled the occupation of the Congo Basin region.

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Birth Name: John Rowlands

Alternative Names: Morton Stanley • H. M. Stanley • Sir Henry Morton Stanley • Henry M. Stanley • Henry Stanley

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Dr. Livingstone, I presume?

Though many illusions are of a character we should gladly cherish, yet the sooner we lose some of them, the sooner we gain the power of seeing clearly into things. The one who possesses least has the best chance of becoming wise. The man who travels, and reflects, loses illusions faster than he who stays at home.

To-day, with its forests pierced and open, its routes, its stations, it is in advance of all other African States. Take the French Congo, the German East Africa, Portuguese West Africa, and compare them. The Congo State prospers in a greater degree than any other part of the black continent.

We have attacked and destroyed 28 large towns, and 3 or 4 score villages. - Henry Morton Stanley

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