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William Stairs
William Stairs was a Canadian-born British army officer and explorer. After serving on Henry Morton Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, he led an expedition for King Leopold II's Congo Free State to Katanga in 1891–1892, racing the British South Africa Company. At the Yeke capital Bunkeya the king Msiri was shot dead in December 1891, securing Katanga for the Free State. Stairs died of malaria at Chinde on the Zambezi in 1892.
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