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),
Henry Morton Stanley encounter does not mention these words. The phrase is first quoted in a summary of Stanley's letters published by "The New York Times" on 2 July 1872. Stanley biographer Tim Jeal argued that the explorer invented it afterwards to help raise his standing because of "insecurity about his background". The "Herald"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s own first account of the meeting, published 1 July 1872, reports: Preserving a calmness of exterior before the Arabs which was hard to simulate as he reached the group, Mr. Stanley said: – "Doctor Livingstone, I presume?" A smile lit up the features of the pale white man as