Editing David Livingstone (section)

==Stanley meeting==
[[File:Omani Empire 2.png|thumb|Livingstone's meeting with Stanley took place at [[Ujiji]], an Arab trading post under the [[Sultanate of Zanzibar]], marked in pink at the bottom left of this map.]]
[[File:Henry Morton Stanley meeting David Livingstone at Ujiji, in Wellcome V0006855.jpg|thumb|Henry Morton Stanley meets David Livingstone]]
[[File:Livingstone Memorial, Tanzania.jpg|thumb|Livingstone Memorial in [[Ujiji]], Tanzania]]
Livingstone completely lost contact with the outside world for six years and was ill for most of the last four years of his life. Only one of his 44 letter dispatches made it to [[Zanzibar]]. One surviving letter to [[Horace Waller (activist)|Horace Waller]] was made available to the public in 2010 by its owner Peter Beard. It reads: "I am terribly knocked up but this is for your own eye only... Doubtful if I live to see you again..."<ref>{{cite news|title=David Livingstone letter deciphered at last. Four-page missive composed at the lowest point in his professional life|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna38064893 |agency=Associated Press|date=2 July 2010|access-date=2 July 2010}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>[http://emelibrary.org/livingstoneletter ''Livingstone's Letter from Bambarre''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100705102958/http://emelibrary.org/livingstoneletter/ |date=5 July 2010 }}, emelibrary.org; accessed 4 July 2010.</ref>

[[Henry Morton Stanley]] had been sent to find him by the ''[[New York Herald]]'' newspaper in 1869. He found Livingstone in the town of [[Ujiji]] on the shores of [[Lake Tanganyika]] on 10 November 1871,<ref name="Stanley" /> apparently greeting him with the now famous words "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Livingstone responded, "Yes", and then, "I feel thankful that I am here to welcome you." These famous words may have been a fabrication, as Stanley later tore out the pages of this encounter in his diary.<ref name="Jeal">{{cite book|last=Jeal|first=Tim |author-link=Tim Jeal|title=Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oaxwAAAAMAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-12625-9}}</ref> Even Livingstone's account of this encounter does not mention these words. However, the phrase appears in a ''New York Herald'' editorial dated 10 August 1872, and the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' and the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' both quote it without questioning its veracity. The words are famous because of their perceived humour, Livingstone being the only other white person for hundreds of miles, along with Stanley's clumsy attempt at appearing dignified in the bush of Africa by making a formal greeting one might expect to hear in the confines of an upper-class London club. However, readers of the ''Herald'' immediately saw through Stanley's pretensions.<ref name="Jeal"/> As noted by his biographer Tim Jeal, Stanley struggled his whole life with a self-perceived weakness of being from a humble background, and manufactured events to make up for this supposed deficiency.<ref name="Jeal"/> Stanley's book suggests that this greeting was truly motivated by embarrassment, because he did not dare to embrace Livingstone.

Despite Stanley's urgings, Livingstone was determined not to leave Africa until his mission was complete. His illness made him confused and he had judgment difficulties at the end of his life. He explored the Lualaba and, failing to find connections to the Nile, returned to [[Lake Bangweulu]] and its swamps to explore possible rivers flowing out northwards.{{sfn|Livingstone|1874|p=}}