Doctor Livingstone, I presume

[Baker, John]

        From the account in The New York Herald, July 15, 1872, p. 5,
via Access Newspaper Archive:

                <<STANLEY AND LIVINGSTONE FACE TO FACE.
        Passing from the rear of it to the front I saw a knot of Arabs,
and, in the centre, in striking contrast to their sunburnt faces, was a
pale-looking and gray-bearded white man, in a navy cap, with a faded
gold band about it, and red woollen jacket. This white man was Dr. David
Livingstone, the hero traveller, the object of the search.
                THE MEETING.
        It was the dignity that a white man and leader of an expedition
ought to possess that prevented me from running to shake hands with the
venerable traveller; but when I first caught sight of him--the man with
whose books on Africa I was first made acquainted when a boy--so far
away from civilization,
it was very tempting. False pride and the presence of the grave-looking
Arab dignitaries of Ujiji restrained me and suggested to me to say with
a shake of the hand,
        "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
        "Yes," was the answer, with a kind smile.>>


John Baker



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Subject: Doctor Livingstone, I presume


Has July 1872 NY Herald been scanned anywhere so that at least that part
of
the mystery can be solved?

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