On Sunday, 11 November 2012 at 21:16:11 +0100, Marc Balmer wrote: > > The date of the encounter is not clear at all. Some sources list > oct. 27, some oct. 28, and some nov. 10 > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morton_Stanley).
I took my information from Wikipedia, the source of all wisdom. It's a pity that the German and English Wikipedias can't even agree on a date, and that other documentation says 10 November. > So this should be researched a bit more. I've done a bit of Googling and come up with Stanley's book "How I found Livingstone", http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/5/1/5/5157/5157-h/5157-h.htm It states clearly and in great detail that the encounter was on 10 November, though it contains the confusing statement: This was that famous letter bag marked 'November 1, 1870,' which was now delivered into the Doctor's hand 365 days after it left Zanzibar! That would mean 1 November. I've updated the calendar and the English and German Wikipedias, so I thought the matter was done and dusted. But that was the book, not the diary. And then I read in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morton_Stanley#Finding_Livingstone : This famous phrase may be a fabrication, as Stanley tore out of his diary the pages relating to the encounter. The diary is available too, but not online. I'll check. And all this for what was really just a spelling error! Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger g...@freebsd.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua
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