Stanley, Henry M (Henry Morton) 1841-1904 Travel Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Africa, Central
Tanzania
Tanganyika, Lake
Date:
1873
19th century
Notes:
Texte traduit de l'ouvrage anglais How I Found Livingstone, avec l'autorisation de l'auteur.
Illustrations, map.
Illustrations include views of Zanzibar, Bagamoyo, Simbamouenni, and various villages; portraits of black Arabs and servants of Zanzibar, and of people from the Sagara, Gogo, Nyamwezi, and Wanamapokera [Pogoro?] tribes; and three plates of weapons and tools.
Henry Stanley, a reporter for New York Herald, was sent by his publisher to find the explorer David Livingstone, who was thought to be lost in central Africa. This article summarizes Stanley's witty, perceptive, and often quite personal account of his journey from Zanzibar to Ujiji, where he indeed found Livingstone, of the two men's exploration of the northern portion of Lake Tanganyika and their eventual emotional parting (Livingstone decided to remain in Africa to finish his work), and of the grueling return to the coast.
Stanley describes not only stunning landscapes, majestic forests, and abundant animal life (from biting flies to enraged elephants) but also settlements, from the walled city of Simbamwenni, capital of Wasegouhha, to small, prosperous lake shore villages. For many of the tribes encountered, he details hairstyles, body decoration, clothing, jewelry, and weapons, and he witnesses the effects of the Arab trade in slaves and ivory on various villages and tribes.