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Zanzibar was the starting point for great European adventurers who tried to map the interior.
Most followed the long established caravan routes before reaching territory unknown even to the traders. The dangers were significant for Europeans in East Africa's interior - for them, a strange and unexplored land.
In 1844, John Krapf, a German missionary arrived in Zanzibar. He was later joined by John Rebbman who became the first European to see Mount Kilimanjaro.
Burton and Speke set off from Britain in 1857 to solve the mystery of the source of Nile, and they also made Zanzibar their base. |
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Other explorers followed - Dr David Livingstone was provided with a house in 1866 from where he planned and kitted out his final expedition.
Stanley also used it in 1871 before setting out on one of history's famous searches, culminating in Stanley's legendary phrase:
"Doctor Livingstone, I presume?" |
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View of the renovated "House of Wonder" |
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The great Doctor died two years later and his body was carried back to Zanzibar, before sailing on to its final resting place in Westminster Abbey.
Livingstone's House in Zanzibar is a well known present-day feature of Stone Town and his medicine chest and correspondence can be seen in the National Museum. |
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Dr. Livingstone I presume? | |
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Zanzibar- This is the finest place I have known in all of Africa to rest before my final journey. An illusive place where nothing is as it seems.
first arab period- c200AD-1499 |
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