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"Stanley took charge of making meals for Livingstone, who gradually regained his strength. They got along surprisingly well, but Livingstone refused to return to Britain. They parted on March 14, 1872, Livingstone carrying on his work in Africa until his death in May 1873." [Furtado: 1001 Days] "By the late 1860s Livingstone's reputation in Europe had suffered owing to the failure of the missions he set up . . . and his ideas about the source of the Nile were not supported. His expeditions were hardly models of order and organisation. His reputation was rehabilitated by Stanley and his newspaper . . . Livingstone made geographical discoveries for European knowledge. He inspired abolitionists of the slave trade, explorers and missionaries. He opened up Central Africa to missionaries who initiated the education and health care for Africans, and trade by the African Lakes Company. He was held in some esteem by many African chiefs and local people and his name facilitated relations between them and the British. Partly as a result, within 50 years of his death, colonial rule was established in Africa, and white settlement was encouraged to extend further into the interior." [Wikipedia]