The African jungle is not the sort of place where you expect to hear the courtesies of the Gentleman's Club. And the people who explored the jungle in the 19th century were not the sort of people you could describe as gentlemen either. far from it!
But one man was exceptional - David Livingstone. His strong, saint-like personality earned him the love and admiration of people from Scotland to San Francisco.
His last expedition is the one that everyone remembers. It was a long and terrible experience. For years he was completely cut off from the outside world. But when H.M. Stanley, the American journalist, finally found him in the heart of equatorial Africa, He greeted the old Doctor with those courteous and now immortal words: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume".
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