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

Behind the Bastards

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How I Found Livingston

In 1874, the Herald paid for him to go on another adventure. This time, he traced the course of a river named the Lua Lava. He started this journey with 228 people and over the course of 7,000 miles, more than half of them died. As the corpse is piled up, people attempted to desert. Stanley responded by capturing and chaining those people up.

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