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Part One: Henry Morton Stanley: The Explorer Who Shot His Way Through Africa

Behind the Bastards

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He's Always Sick and Dying

henry got malaria shortly after moving and dropped down to just 95 pounds. it is one of those things we throughout his life like a lot of fancy british people will always treat him like shit even after he becomes rich and famous because he comes from a low-class background. i love that in actual actuality these people are being dragged through like their exploration then they're not actually out there cutting stuff bushwhacking with their own machete or anything they're being carried on a paloquine as they slowly wither away into nothing some of the best explorers were just constantly ill and just didn't quite die.

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