Hilary Gerrior, age 9, of Cumberland Center, Maine, for her question:

WHO WAS HENRY MORTON STANLEY?

Dr. David Livingstone went to Africa to do missionary work in the mid 1800s and stayed on to become an explorer. He sighted the Victoria Falls on the Zambewi in 1855 and set out to find the source of the Nile River in 1866. He reached the southern end of Lake Tanganyika in 1867 and moved on into the interior of central Africa. Concern over his safety led to the expedition of Sir Henry Morgan Stanley  and a linking forever of the names of Stanley and Livingstone.

Working as a reporter for the New York Herald in 1869, Stanley was sent to Africa to find Livingstone. After many hardships, in the autumn of 1871 the two met and Stanley gave this now famous greeting: " Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"