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I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.
Henry Morton Stanley
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Henry Morton Stanley
Age: 63 †
Born: 1841
Born: January 28
Died: 1904
Died: May 10
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