By 1868 he was a journalist for the New York Herald accompanying the British punitive campaign against the Ethiopian emperor Theodore II.   
He spent his youth in a Welsh workhouse, and then secured passage to New Orleans as a cabin boy, eventually becoming the adopted son of merchant.  By 1868 he was a journalist for the New York Herald accompanying the British punitive campaign against the Ethiopian emperor Theodore II.   The Africans called him Bula Matari or "breaker of rocks," and in 1888 he was sent on a mission to evacuate Mehmed Emin Pasha, the last of Chinese Gordon's lieutenants holding out the Mahdi.  The modern-day city of Kisangani was once named for him, as he was instrumental in gaining the Congo for Leopold II of Belgium.  FTP, name this explorer most famous for finding a Scottish explorer and subsequently saying, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
He spent his youth in a Welsh workhouse, and then secured passage to New Orleans as a cabin boy, eventually becoming the adopted son of merchant.  
Henry Morton Stanley