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our time has been so well equipped with courage, latent resources, 

 command of men, sturdy heroism and self-sacrifice as he was for 

 the almost miraculous task confided to him by his wealthy and enter- 

 prising patron, Mr. Bennett. 



In reading of his adventures and successes, we are quite apt 

 to lose sight of certain great results which must inevitably follow 

 from his journeys in Africa. We see only the lost explorer, Liv- 

 ingstone, admired and beloved by half the world, his terrible suffer- 

 ings and the slow wasting of his life. But this man, this hero to 

 whom so many eyes are turned, this great explorer, who, like 

 Stanley, was much more than a mere adventurer, is only one figure 

 in the vivid scene which passes before our eyes. It will not do to 

 limit our thought to either of these men or to both of them. 



TWO FAMOUS TRAVELERS. 



Livingstone had forsaken his early home and his fatherland; 

 all the hardship that comes to one by being in an uncivilized country 

 fell to his lot; the wife who had shared his fortunes, afld quite as 

 often, his misfortunes, had been rudely torn from his side ; the vast 

 benefit to savage races which she as well as her illustrious husband 

 was capable of imparting was suddenly lost. The beautiful and 

 touching reference of Livingstone to her grave, which has been 

 related, is something that must move the heart of every reader. 



Stanleys journeys were free from some of the incidents which 

 are so thrilling in those of the one he was trying to find, yet others 

 fell to his lot with w^hich Livingstone was unacquainted. And so 

 this man stands out in strong proportions, with a most remarkable 

 individuality of his own; a man raised up for a certain work, peculiar 

 in his make-up, endowed for adventure and exploit, and ages hence 

 history will turn to him and write some of its most eloquent pages. 



Still it is true that the great interest of African exploration 

 does not gather around either of these men, or both of them, except 

 as they are the instruments for penetrating a continent hitherto 

 dark and unknown; for what they achieved in bringing the dark 

 races of Africa under the full light of modern civilization and 

 Christianity is, after all, the finest thing to be noted. Whoever 



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