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(upbeat music)

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(whimsical music)

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- [Narrator] Africa, as
early as the 15th century,

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thriving European trading
posts are set up along

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the western coast of Africa.

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They each were two distinctive
characters, their names

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tell us what they mainly traded.

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Gold Coast, the Ivory Coast.

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(dramatic music, man grunts, growls)

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- Get out.

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- [Narrator] And the Slave Coast.

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(laughs)

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But the interior of the
Continent remained a mystery,

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the jungle, the climate.

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And there were tropical fevers,
and sometimes the hostility

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of the natives.

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There were insects and wild
animals and so many barriers

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and dangers to discourage exploration.

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(gasps)

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Then technical progress
made in the 19th century

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would give the Europeans the
encouragement and the means

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to explore the dark continent,
in England, sir Joseph Banks

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founds the Association for
the Exploration of Africa.

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- One third of all inhabited
areas are completely unknown,

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especially in Africa,
there's a whole continent

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to be discovered, simply
in the interest of science,

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it's our duty to explore it.

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- So the association
funds the first European

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expedition into the
interior of the continent.

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A certain Scotsman, Mungo
Park manages to get as far

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as the Niger River.

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(whimsical music)

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But the Niger was a wild river
and he was unable to tame it.

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It was next the turn of a young
Frenchman, he spoke Arabic

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and had studied the Koran
and he set off (mumbles).

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He would be the first
European ever to arrive in

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the legendary city of
Timbuktu, also known (mumbles).

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Naturally there were many
others from many other lands,

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but the most extraordinary was
surely a Scotsman whose name

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was David Livingston.

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And at the age of 25 and
with diplomas in medicine

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and theology, he arrives
in South Africa and sets up

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a mission north of Kuruman.

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Well before long, he married
the daughter of the local

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clergyman.

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(slow music)

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- All human wisdom comes from our lord.

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- [Narrator] The Dutch settlers
were at war with the English

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and took a very dim view of his mission.

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- We'll have to leave our home.

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- [Narrator] Crossing the
Kalahari desert was too dangerous.

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(upbeat music)

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(mumbles)

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(lion roars, David gasps)

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(birds chirp)

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- It's Lake Ngami, we're
first people ever to see it.

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First ones.

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(baby cries)

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It's much too dangerous
for you and the children.

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You'd better go on back to
England, you're all much

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too ill, I'll go with you to Cape Town.

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- [Narrator] So leaving his
wife and children behind,

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Livingston pursued his undying
passion for exploration.

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- That was our last one.

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European animals are especially
vulnerable to the disease.

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Caused by the tsetse fly.

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- The Zambeze, we'll cross it.

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Chop.

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(men grunt)

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(water rushes)

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(men shout)

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- That's a good spot.

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(upbeat music, birds chirp)

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- No, a convoy of slaves,
that can't be allowed.

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We must help those poor people,
get the distress flares.

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(gasps)

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- Surprise.

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(commotion)

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- They tied us and beat
us, but you tore our ropes

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and you gave us food, what are you called?

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- Dr. Livingston.

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I have come from faraway
England across the sea.

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- You seem good so you're
our friend, we are the,

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this is our primal land, please
come with Dr. Livingston,

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our chief will be glad to meet you.

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(cheering)

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(laughter)

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(drums, hums)

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(laughs)

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I bring the man who saved us
all from the slave traders.

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- I am Zekoleto, king of Batalolos.

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You helped my people,
I will give you help.

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You've only to say what you want.

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- Just one thing, I want
to explore your mountains,

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your rivers, make roads, open
up your land to civilization,

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put an end to slavery.

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If I might go from here all
the way, to the great sea,

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an ocean thousands of times
greater than your biggest

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lakes, it would be good for your people.

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- You'll have supplies and
be escorted by my warriors.

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- [Narrator] Livingstone
took five months to cover

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the 2000 kilometer journey to
Lawanda, capital of Portuguese

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Angola, and he would
cross five great rivers.

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And the trip proved to be
much more difficult than

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he could ever have imagined.

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(grunts)

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With every step, he met new
challenges, and finally here

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he is in Lawanda.

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(whimsical music)

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- My jungle people.

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(laughs)

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- (Mumbles) Crocodiles
worth more, that's enough.

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A hospital.
- Just in time.

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(groans)

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- [Narrator] And after
three months of rest.

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- What, where am I?

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I'm losing time.

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- Welcome back, doctor.

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- Now I've made a big decision,
we're going to cross Africa

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from end to end, in a straight line.

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We've got our canoes, it's easy.

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But first back to the
Mogololos to see their king.

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(whimsical music)

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From sea to sea, from
rising sun to setting sun.

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- You will need additional
mules and more ivory

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if you're going so far,
you shall have them.

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(water splashes)

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(birds chirp)

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- The rumbling smoke.

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- The waterfall, we'd
better beach them, quickly,

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over there.

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(grunts)

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Quickly, come.

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(water rushes)

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Whoa.

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(clears throat)

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I name these falls Victoria in
honor of our gracious queen.

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(sighs)

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(laughs)

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Let's go, there's a long trek ahead.

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(upbeat music)

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Slave traders must have come.

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(speaks in foreign language)

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- You have to pay him to pass through his

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territory.
- Alright, bring him

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something.

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- I want big one.

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(laughs)

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(growls)

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- Chief, a gift for you.

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Alright, let's go.

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- What is it, let me see.

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(shatters)

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- [Narrator] And so after
eight months, Livingstone,

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exhausted and sick finally
reached Kalamani, the first

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European to cross Africa
from west to east.

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He had crossed the entire continent.

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Returning to England after a
15 year absence, he is given

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a hero's welcome.

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- Welcome back.
- Yay.

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- Welcome back.

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- Dr. Livingstone returns.
- Dr. Livingstone in London.

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(cheers)

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- Therefore if we want to
open Africa and exploit

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it's riches and put an end
to the wicked slave trade

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we must bring Africa
our civilization as well

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as Christianity.

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(applauds, cheers)

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- [Narrator] So appointed
as Consul to Eastern Africa,

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Livingstone returned to the
black continent, his mission,

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open a navigable waterway on Zambezi.

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(monkeys screech, men gasp)

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- This boat is slow, much too slow.

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(commotion)

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(elephant toots)

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(whimsical music)

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(commotion)

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- The boat isn't much
use, probably useless.

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- England is delighted
to offer you this boat,

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the greatest technological
model found, we shall see.

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- [Narrator] Oh yes,
they would see alright.

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(people scream, shout)

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- I can't swim.

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(grunts)

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- There's Africa's answer to
Europe's latest technological

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model.

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- [Narrator] All the same,
it helped him to discover

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beautiful Lake Nyasa.

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(whimsical music)

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- Have a good return trip.

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- I say, you're a tough nut, aren't you?

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- London's always sending
me ballroom explorers with

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no backbone in them, I
think I'll just get started

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on my own with my porters and my buffalos.

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(buffalo moo)

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- We would like to go
along with you this time.

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But we're old and pretty
tired now, Doctor.

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But if you like, our sons
Tsunzi and Tuma could go

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with you.

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(whimsical music)

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(birds chirp)

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- [Narrator] So Livingston's
disappeared, he was swallowed

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up by the African Jungle.

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Many people in Europe were
concerned about Livingstone

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but nobody did anything, and
then an American newspaper

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funded a search expedition.

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- Yeah, yeah Stanley, yeah.

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Well look, you are the only
one who can go to Africa

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and find David Livingstone.

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The scoop of the century.

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- Difficult, Mr. Bennett,
and costly, very costly.

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Livingstone's methods aren't mine.

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- Anything you want, just
ask for it, write your own

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ticket.

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- Our job is to find
Livingstone as quick as we can,

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there aren't going to be any
stops or delays and anybody

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who tries to desert gets punished.

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Everybody got that?

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- Ah they're deaf, every
one of them, he means you

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lazy bones, work hard.

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- My men are the best porters around.

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Go on, you ask anybody.

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- Yes, that is exactly what
my men said they had word

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of him, it is 1000 kilometers away.

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And it will be hard.

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- What is that?

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- Out of the way.

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(elephants toot)

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They make it much easier.

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Let's go.

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(sings in foreign language)

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(birds chirp)

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- This merchandise is excellent, quality.

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- I want to locate a certain white doctor.

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- Hinojiji is one with a white beard.

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- Hinojiji, that's what they
said, yes, that could be him.

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I think we'll find him.

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- Well, we're off again.

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- They are looking exceedingly
tired to me boss, a little

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rest would be good, just look at them.

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- Yes, we're tired, we want to stop.

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- Not until we find
Livingstone, then we'll stop.

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Every man will be rewarded,
but now, just one order,

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hit the trail.

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- [Narrator] Finally they get to Hinojiji.

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(gunshots echo)

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And it was here that he
spoke the sentence that went

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down in history.

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- Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
- Yes, I suppose sir.

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(birds chirp)

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- Doctor, I'm very glad at last we meet.

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- My pleasure sir.

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(liquid pours)

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Well I see you travel in style.

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- I'm well funded, Doctor, in
Europe, everybody's concerned

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about you.

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- Just in time, my supplies
would have run out in about

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two weeks.

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- Now we can return together
doctor, it will be a pleasure.

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- What, return?

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- I'll take you back to England, doctor.

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- Stanley, when I decide to
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need anybody, I'm,
(coughs) I'll get myself.

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- Very well, if you want to
remain I can't make you go back.

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- Listen to me Stanley, these
are my notes from the past

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two years, if anything
happens to me all my work will

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be lost.

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- Yes, but why don't you
want to come back home?

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- Young man, you have
given me strength and hope,

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my place is here.

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Anyway, I'm going to find
the source of the Nile.

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Let's go lads, we're on our way (coughs).

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- [Narrator] But
Livingstone wouldn't go far.

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Though he aged comfortably, in
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he lost his way.

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(whimsical music)

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(thunder crashes)

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- I did my best.

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- [Narrator] After Livingstone's
death, it was for Stanley

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to take up the challenge.

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He mounted the most extensive
expedition ever seen in Africa

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eight tons of supplies and
equipment carried by 360 porters

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and he set off to explore the Congo.

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- I believe it flows
directly into the Congo.

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- About half the men have
deserted and we are in the middle

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of nowhere.

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- We're to load the others
on the water and we'll make

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progress, on our own, what's
more, Zibitubul will help us.

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- Why do you have anything
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why?
- With him here the porters

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won't run away.

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(dramatic drum music)

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Don't take all day.

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Let's go, put some speed into it.

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Let's go.

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(men shouting)

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- [Narrator] Once they were
in a quiet part of the river,

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other problems.

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(shouting, commotion)

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- They're scared of us,
they've never seen a white man

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on boats like this.

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- Well I'll give them a
good reason to be scared.

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Ready at my command.

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Fire.

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(gunshots echo)

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- [Narrator] Stanley was
to wage 32 skirmishes with

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the natives and spread terror
as he forced a passageway

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on the Congo River.

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His fierce determination earned
him the name Rockbreaker.

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- Now they know what's in
store, if they attack us.

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- [Narrator] Their journey
went on like this to Boma

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a new landing.

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(people talk in foreign language)

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(gasps)

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- Nice to get back to civilization.

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We're all very, very tired.

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We've come from Jackson (grunts).

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- [Narrator] 99 days of
torture to reach the coast,

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but Stanley's exploit was
to change many things.

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He had opened up Africa and
all it's riches were squabbled

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over by Europeans.
- Get away I was here first.

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I alone belong.
- I'm the first.

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(commotion)

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- [Narrator] It was a
mad race and the winner?

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Eh, whoever could plant
his country's flag first.

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Well Stanley returned to the
Congo and made it the Belgian

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Congo, a British subject
came and gave his name

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to British Cameroon.

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A Frenchman, Pierre De Raza
would found Brazzeville.

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Each explorer is happy to
immortalize his name and soon

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Africa was exploited in
a way far different than

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the humanitarian dreams of Livingstone.

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Ah, Africa, that is even
today so mysterious.

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(upbeat music)