CHAPTER XIV. 



vStanley's Pe:rseve;rance: — Maste:ring Mountains of Diffi- 

 cuivTY — Bfnt on Finding Livingstone — Charactfristics 

 OF THE Two Grfat Expeorfrs — Eivingstonf's Touching 

 RfffrFncf to thf Dfath of His Wiff — Wondfrfuf Rf- 

 suFTs OF African Exploration — Stanffy Approachfs 

 Ujiji — Nfvvs of a Brother White Man — Great Excite- 

 ment Among the TravelfeRS — Fine ExampfE of the 

 Angfo-Saxon Spirit — Life Given to Ethiopia's Dusky 

 Cfiifdren — Livingstone's Marveffous Love for Africa. 



T IVINGSTONE was now lost in the jungles of the great dark 

 ■^ continent. Two or three minor expeditions had started to 

 search for him, but did not proceed very far. It remained for 

 Henry M. Stanley to head a searching and exploration expedition 

 that succeeded. 



Long and perilous days those were which were passed by 

 Stanley and his caravan. Yet they illustrate one of the most import- 

 ant lessons of life, which is that no one is to make more than a day's 

 journey at a time and that the most practical method of overcoming 

 difficulties is to take them and master them one by one. If Stanley 

 had been less resolute, if he had been easily discouraged, if he were 

 one of the men who make a sudden start and then as suddenly halt, 

 if he had not been a kind of Hercules in body and in soul, if he had 

 possessed less of the push and enterprise which always go with a 

 great character, the world would never have rung with acclaim at 

 his achievements. 



It was a new experience to him, that of traversing the wilds of 

 the Dark Continent, quelling mutiny among his men, meeting 

 unfriendly chiefs who were given to rapacious extortion, and plung- 

 ing on through jungles, thickets and pathless tracts, untrodden and 

 unmarked, yet he had gone with the definite purpose of finding Liv- 

 ingstone, and, as we read the story of his successful search, we are 



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