What Should a Young Traveler Take to Africa? Henry Morton Stanley Offers Advice...

"On one point I failed, and lest new and young travelers fall into the same error which marred much of my enjoyment, this paragraph is written. One must be extremely careful in his choice of weapons, whether for sport or defense. A traveler should have at least three different kinds of guns. One should be a fowling-piece, the second should be a double-barreled rifle, No. 10 or 12, the third should be a magazine-rifle, for defense.

"... and for a fighting weapon, I maintain that the best yet invented is the American Winchester repeating rifle, or the "sixteen shooter" as it is called ... If I suggest as a fighting weapon the American Winchester, I do not mean that the traveler need take it for the purpose of offense, but as the best means of efficient defense, to save his own life against African banditti, when attacked, a thing likely to happen any time.

From How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa including four months residence with Dr. Livingstone by Sir Henry Morton Stanley, 1872.