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| | Dr. Livingstone, I prosume? |
 | | And I think that must be how David Livingstone felt, the Scottish missionary and explorer (1813-1873) who vanished into the heart of Africa, sometimes for years at a time. |
 | | When I was a kid in the 1950s, he was still famous, mainly because of how the catchphrase, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" (uttered by Henry Stanley, sent to Africa to find Livingstone) was used as a marketing gimmick by the New York Herald. |
 | | Livingstone had traced the slave trade to its roots, to a region by Lake Nyasa that had become completely depopulated by slavers. |
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