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STANLEY FINDS THE LOST EXPLORER. 



Studies history knows very well that every man is building higher 

 than he thinks, accomplishing more than he imagines, casting off 

 results that are left behind him as he crowds on, while his uncon- 

 scious influence and the incidental eft'ects of his life and undertak- 

 ings are such as we have no scales for weighing. 



After having been lost half a dozen years, Livingstone is to 

 be met by a brother white man, who will assure him that the world 

 is interested in his welfare. It will be to him a surprise, and a piece 





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STANLEY ON THE MARCH. 



of intelligence as gratifying as it is unexpected. It will convince 

 him that his heroic sacrifices are not forgotten, and will be treasured 

 and commemorated after he is gone. 



In his thrilling account of the meeting with Livingstone, 

 Stanley says: We push on rapidly, lest the news of our coming 

 might reach the people of Ujiji before we come in sight, and are 

 ready for them. We halt at a little brook, then ascend the long slope 

 of a naked ridge, the very last of the myriads we have crossed. 

 This alone prevents us from seeing the lake in all its vastness. We 

 arrive at the summit, travel across and arrive at its western rim, 



