Ujiji


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Ujiji

(uːˈdʒiːdʒɪ)
n
(Placename) a town in W Tanzania, on Lake Tanganyika: a former slave and ivory centre; the place where Stanley found Livingstone in 1871. It merged with the neighbouring town of Kigoma to form Kigoma-Ujiji in the 1960s
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| 1871: Henry Morton Stanley, sent to Africa by his newspaper to find Scottish missionary David Livingstone, finally made contact with him at Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika with the words: "Dr Livingstone, I presume."
1871 - Henry Morton Stanley encounters David Livingstone at Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa, with the immortal words 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'.
1871: Henry Morton Stanley, sent to Africa by his newspaper to find Scottish missionary David Livingstone, finally made contact with him at Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika with the words: "Dr Livingstone, I presume." 1910: Edward Elgar conducted the first performance of his violin concerto, played by Fritz Kreisler, in the Queen's Hall, London.
sent t 1871: Denbigh-born Henry Morton Stanley, to Africa by his American newspaper to find Scottish missionary David Livingstone, finally made contact with him at Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika with the words: "Dr Livingstone, I presume."
Henry Morton Stanley 1871 Henry Morton Stanley, sent to Africa by his newspaper to find Scottish missionary David Livingstone, finally made contact with him at Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika with the words: "Dr Livingstone, I presume."
Upon discovering Livingstone in the town of Ujiji, Tanzania, Stanley greeted him with the now-famous words, 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'
Arranged geographically in file cabinets, these stereographs show details of life in various parts of the continent, such as the court in session in a courtroom filled with officials, audience, and witnesses pictured in A Native Court in Ujiji, Tanganyika Territory, Africa (P&P stereo.
"Sex alerts Ujiji felines," said I, "as senile Fiji just relaxes!"
In October 1871 he was given hope the Scottish doctor was alive - a white man matching his description had arrived at Ujiji, now in Tanzania.