Press, 2004) [accessed 16 Jan 2017]. 3. In addition to his geographical achievements, Stanley was involved in imperial expansion, working directly for King Leopold of Belgium to establish stations in the Congo and contributing to the 'opening' of Buganda. See Newman, Imperial Footprints, pp. 337-38. Baker is best known for exploring the 'Luta N'Zigé', which he renamed the Albert N'yanza, and for later acting as governor-general of the equatorial Nile basin on the authority of the Ottoman Empire. Earlier in his career, he developed a 'colonization scheme' in Ceylon and acquired a reputation as a big game hunter.

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It is Tuesday, 27 January 1874, and a telegram from her Majesty's Acting Consul-General at Zanzibar reaches the Foreign Office, reporting news of the death of Dr. David Livingstone. An incredulous British public struggles to disbelieve and discredit the account. Months later and, after an agonizing delay, the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Malwa arrives, bearing a broken and wizened body to port in Southampton. Waiting is a public throng, in mourning for its national hero. Later he is laid to rest in a chockablock Westminster Abbey, a public symbol of the national interest vested in Livingstone (See Figure 1).

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