WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Between 1874 and 1877 Henry Morton Stanley traveled Central Africa east to west, exploring Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika and the Lualaba and Congo rivers. He covered 7, 000 miles (11, 000 km) from Zanzibar in the east to Boma at the mouth of the Congo in the west.

Detailed explanation-2: -Besides his discovery of Livingstone, he is mainly known for his search for the sources of the Nile and Congo rivers, the work he undertook as an agent of King Leopold II of the Belgians which enabled the occupation of the Congo Basin region, and his command of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1887, Henry Morton Stanley went up the Congo River and inadvertently started a disastrous experiment. This was long after his first journey into Africa, as a journalist for an American newspaper in 1871, when he’d become famous by finding a Scottish missionary and reporting the first words of their encounter: “Dr.

Detailed explanation-4: -(1841–1904). The first European to explore the Congo River from Central Africa to the Atlantic Ocean was Henry Morton Stanley. He traveled the great river for 2, 000 miles (3, 200 kilometers) from Nyangwe, in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to its mouth.

Detailed explanation-5: -Overview. The nineteenth century introduced a period of European-led African exploration unlike any other in history. Most significant were the travels of Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), a British-born American journalist who was the first person to travel and record the entire length of the Congo River.