354 STANLEY'S JOURNEY THROUGH AFRICA 



into Boma, 999 days after leaving Zanzibar, having traveled over 

 7,000 miles in that time. The reception accorded to Stanley partook 

 of the nature of a triumph, and the first few days at Boma were given 

 up to that delicious rest and oblivion of danger from which he had so 

 long been an exile. 



It would take many words to describe the joy and emotion, the 

 surprise and admiration, with which the prowess of Stanley and the 

 deeds of the Anglo-American Expedition were regarded. The feel- 

 ings of all who took part may be very nmch more easily imagined than 

 described. The "good master" had not only performed what he had 

 set out to do, not only crossed those distant lakes even to the great Salt 

 Sea beyond, but brought back his faithful Wangwana to their own 

 homes at Zanzibar, there to reward them with his own hand, and see 

 them with his own eyes at rest at last. 



The price paid for this success was great. His white companions 

 had all died, and with them in their deaths were no fewer than 170 

 natives. The financial cost was enormous. But the aim and end of 

 the Anglo-American Expedition had been achieved, the great geo- 

 graphical problems of the dark continent solved, and' Stanley had per- 

 formed the task allotted to him, with a success so brilliant as to make 

 him the cynosure of the admiring eyes of two hemispheres. 



