Excerpt from John Ludwig Krapf the Explorer-Missionary of Northeastern Africa The name "The Dark Continent" was given to the great continent of Africa by Henry M. Stanley. This newspaper man was sent out by the New York Herald to find the missionary David Livingstone, who had gone into the wilderness of central Africa and had not been heard from for several years. Stanley himself found it a very difficult matter to locate the great missionary, but he finally found him in a little town on Lake Tanganyika. Stanley had ample opportunity to study Africa at first hand, and the term which he applied to the great continent is most fitting from several points of view. In the first place, a very large part of Africa is inhabited by negro races, most of whom are very dark-skinned. Then also, the great interior of this great continent was practically unknown to white people till a little more than fifty years ago. Even today there are large sections, fully as big as some of the states of the American union, which have hardly been seen by white people.

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