
Part Two: Henry Morton Stanley: The Explorer Who Shot His Way Through Africa
Behind the Bastards
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Tim Geale's the Slavery Story
Tim Geale, unbiased biographer, wants you to know that while he trumped through other people's land, Henry Morton Stanley was a pretty good guest of the Africans. He paid these people generously for the right of passage through their territory, the equivalent of $170 in gold. So he whipped them sometimes for asking what was up, but he paid them. But such an outburst of anger would be bitterly regretted afterwards. The traveler in rogogo territory wrote Henry was tempted a score of times each day to draw a bead with his rifle. It happens, we've all whipped a few people we wish we hadn't whipped when we had a fever and wound up in their house somehow. Not
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