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_posts/2025-01-30-dr-livingstone-i-presume.md

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+title: Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
+author: David Jentes
+excerpt: A freed slave named Susi, which helped him get to Ujiji, saw Stanley. When Stanley first met Livingstone, he said, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
+date: 2025-01-30 02:00:00
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+Henry Morton Stanley was born in 1841 in Wales. He did various different things throughout his life. He spent most of his youth in a workhouse for orphans, then sailed as a cabin boy on a ship to New Orleans at the age of 17. He joined the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, and was soon captured. He joined the Union Army to get out of prison, but the discharged him because of poor health. Soon after, he joined the Union Navy, but deserted a year later and became a newspaper reporter.
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+Europe and America had no idea where Dr. Livingstone was, so the *London Daily Telegraph* and the *New York Herald* sent Henry Stanley to search for him. Stanley went on an expedition of his own, which he wrote about in his best-selling book, *How I Found Livingstone*, published in 1872.
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+Dr. Livingstone had just made it to Ujiji, with no money and nothing to trade for food. He was in despair. A freed slave named Susi, which helped him get to Ujiji, saw Stanley. When Stanley first met Livingstone, he said, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” Stanley had brought enough food and medicine to restore Livingstone’s health. Livingstone and Stanley traveled together to get to a major trading center 300 miles away. Livingstone hired porters there to assist him, and Stanley returned to the coast.

_posts/2025-01-30-going-deeper-in.md

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+title: Going Deeper In
+author: David Jentes
+date: 2025-01-30 00:00:00
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+Dr. Livingstone’s final goal was not to stay at Dr. Philips’ mission at Cape Town, but to see the “real” Africa. To be able to minister to those deeper in, he continued to his original goal of making it to Dr. Moffat’s mission in Kuruman. To do so, he needed to go on a three-month wagon ride. They packed all of the essentials and food that they would need for three months, and started the journey. Since the wagon was so heavy, they required twelve oxen to pull it. They hired three natives to guide them and to drive the oxen.
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+They finally arrived, but Dr. Livingstone didn’t stay long. A couple years later, he chose to go further north and establish another mission station. He wanted to “preach the gospel beyond every other man’s line of things.” This new station was 250 miles north of Kuruman at Mabotsa.
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+At this new station, he was attacked by a lion. His survival was an absolute miracle, since his left shoulder was broken in several places, causing him to never be able to fully use his left arm again. To recover, he returned south to the station in Kuruman. While at the station, he would marry Dr. Moffat’s daughter Mary.
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+He returned to Mabotsa with his new wife, but chose soon after to leave to explore. He made it to a place 40 miles to the north, then to Kolobeng, which is on the eastern edge of the Kalahari Desert. Within a couple years, he became restless again and wanted to keep exploring more.

_posts/2025-01-30-into-the-dark-interior.md

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+title: Into the Dark Interior
+author: David Jentes
+date: 2025-1-30 01:00:00
+---
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+Dr. Livingstone’s yearning for exploration eventually led to a great expedition north of the Kalahari Desert. He had two reasons for this expedition. He wanted to see Lake Ngami, which he would be the first European to see, and minitster to the Makololo people, which lived just north of the lake.
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+Livingstone would not make this journey alone. He had help from two supporters, one named WIlliam Colton Oswell, a wealthy young big-game hunter, and the other being his friend Mungo Murray. They were guided by an African named Ramotobi. It consisted of 80 oxen, 20 horses, and 30 to 40 porters and drivers.
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+There were many dangers on this trip. Water was scarce, and the only reason they had any water at all was because of Ramotobi’s knowledge of how to dig for it. Many scorpions could be found along the route, which induced severe pain and paralysis, and the cures, like searing with a hot iron, were usually as bad as the bite.
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+They frequently saw mirages, being tricked into thinking they were close the Lake Ngami. At one point, even Ramotobi got lost. However, they found a river, at the time called the Zouga, now called the Botletle. The local people confirmed that it led to the lake, so they followed it for 280 miles, and reached the lake on August 1.
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+The Maololo lived another 200 miles to the north. The local ruler refused to give them a guide since they were European, so they chose to return back to the station.

_posts/2025-01-30-the-death-of-a-hero.md

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+title: The Death of a Hero
+author: David Jentes
+date: 2025-01-30 03:00:00
+---
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+Livingstone waited in the trade center for five months until more supplies arrived from the coast. After the wait, he began his last journey, which was around the south shore of Lake Tanganyika. He crossed a river and headed south, but he got hopelessly lost. He got dysentery and hemorrhoids on March 31, 1873.
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+A month before, Livingstone wrote in his journal, “Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair. I encourage myself in the Lord my God, and go forward.” On April 22, he could no longer walk and had to be carried. He wrote, “It is not all pleasure, this exploration.” The expedition stopped at a village called Chitambo in northeast Zambia. He made his last diary entry on April 27, 1873. At midnight on April 30, he said to Susi, “All right, you can go now.” During the night, one of his companions looked in and saw him kneeling by his cot in prayer. The next morning, he was found in the same position, dead.
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+Livingstone’s companions cut out his heart and other organs before embalming his body with raw salt. They wrapped his body in cloth and bark and slung it on a pole. They carried it across East Africa until they reached the trade center that they departed from on October 20, 1873. They turned the body over to Englishmen that were looking for Livingstone, but travelled along with them to see the funeral. A funeral ceremony and burial was held at Westminster Abbey on April 18, 1874.