Stanley and Livingstone Colonel Grimes tells two peace commissioners sent from Washington DC that he cannot permit them to try to contact the Indians of the Wyoming Territory of 1870, as it would be suicidal, only to have Stanley emerge from the wilderness, escorted by a band of the natives and his guide, Jeff Slocum (Walter Brennan). When Stanley returns to New York City, his employer, "New York Herald" publisher James Gordon Bennett, Jr., gives him another near-impossible assignment. The "London Globe" has announced that an expedition headed by Gareth Tyce (Richard Greene), the son of the "Globe"s publisher, Lord Tyce (Charles Coburn),
Livingstone Falls Livingstone Falls Livingstone Falls (French, "Chutes Livingstone") — named for the explorer David Livingstone — are a succession of enormous rapids on the lower course of the Congo River in west equatorial Africa, downstream from Malebo Pool in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Livingstone Falls consist of a series of rapids dropping in . They start downstream Malebo Pool and end in Matadi in Bas-Congo. The Congo River has the second largest flow rate in the world after the Amazon, which has no falls or rapids (except near its sources). The lowest rapids of Livingstone Falls, therefore, are the