Henry Morton Stanley, formerly known as John Rowlands, was born into a poor Welsh illegitimate family. He worked hard to establish himself first as a reporter, then an explorer. As a journalist, he covered the American Indian wars and became a foreign correspondent for New York Herald. After going to Africa and tracking down David Livingstone in 1872, he entered the employ of King Leopold II. “For five years, Stanley was Leopold’s main in the Congo. The explorer’s combative energy was now directed mainly against the territory’s forbidding landscape, not its people” (67). Henry Morton Stanley was a harsh taskmaster. “‘The best punishment is that or irons,’ he explained in one of his letters to Brussels, ‘because without wounding, disfiguring,