3 1874 newspapers HENRY MORTON STANLEY AFRICA EXPEDITION to Discover Source NILE for Sale

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3 1874 newspapers HENRY MORTON STANLEY AFRICA EXPEDITION to Discover Source NILE For Sale

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3 1874 newspapers HENRY MORTON STANLEY AFRICA EXPEDITION to Discover Source NILE:
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Lot of three (3) 1874 newspapers with inside-page long and detailed headline reports covering HENRY MORTON STANLEY\'s AFRICA EXPEDITIONto Discover the Source of the NILE RIVER in Africa

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SEE PHOTO-----THREE COMPLETE, ORIGINALNEWSPAPERs,theNew York Herald (NY) dated December 2, 3 and 4, 1874 with news coverage of the famous HENRY STANLEY EXPEDITION to \"darkest\" central AFRICA to find the SOURCE of the NILE RIVER.

In 1874, the New York Herald and Britain\'s Daily Telegraph financed Stanley on another expedition to Africa. His objective was nothing less than to complete the exploration and mapping of the central African lakes and rivers, in the process circumnavigating Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika and locating the source of the Nile. Between 1875 and 1876 Stanley succeeded in the first part of his objective, establishing that Lake Victoria had only a single outlet – the one discovered by John Hanning Speke on 21 July 1862 and named Ripon Falls. If this was not the Nile\'s source, then the separate massive northward flowing river called by Livingstone, the Lualaba, and mapped by him in its upper reaches, might flow on north to connect with the Nile via Lake Albert and thus be the primary source.

It was therefore essential that Stanley should trace the course of the Lualaba downstream (northward) from Nyangwe, the point where Livingstone had left it in July 1871. Between November 1876 and August 1877, Stanley and his men navigated the Lualaba up to and beyond the point where it turned sharply westward, away from the Nile, identifying itself as the Congo River. Having succeeded with this second objective, they then traced the river to the sea. During this expedition, Stanley used sectional boats and dug-out canoes to pass the large cataracts that separated the Congo into distinct tracts. These boats were transported around the rapids before being rebuilt to travel on the next section of river. In passing the rapids many of his men were drowned, including his last white colleague, Frank Pocock. Stanley and his men reached the Portuguese outpost of Boma, around 62 mi from the mouth of the Congo River on the Atlantic Ocean, after 999 days on 9 August 1877. Muster lists and Stanley\'s diary (12 November 1874) show that he started with 228 people and reached Boma with 114 survivors, with he being the only European left alive out of four. In Stanley\'s Through the Dark Continent (1878) (in which he coined the term \"Dark Continent\" for Africa), Stanley said that his expedition had numbered 356, the exaggeration detracting from his achievement.

Stanley attributed his success to his leading African porters, saying that his success was \"all due to the pluck and intrinsic goodness of 20 men ... take the 20 out and I could not have proceeded beyond a few days\' journey\".[25] Professor James Newman has written that \"establishing the connection between the Lualaba and Congo Rivers and locating the source of the Victoria Nile\" justified him (Newman) in stating that: \"In terms of exploration and discovery as defined in nineteenth-century Europe, he (Stanley) clearly stands at the top.\"

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