STANLEY FINDS THE LOST EXPLORER. 



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and — pause, reader — the port of Ujiji is below us, embowered in 

 the pahiis, only five hundred yards from us. 



At this grand moment we do not think of the hundreds of 

 miles we have marched, or of the hundreds of hills we have ascended 

 and descended, or of the many forests we have traversed, or of the 

 jungles and thickets that annoyed us, or of the fervid salt plains 



ARRIVAL AT UJIJI. 



that blistered our feet, or of the hot sun that scorched us, nor of 

 the dangers and difficulties, now happily surmounted! 



At last the sublime hour had arrived; — our dreams, our hopes, 

 and anticipations are now about to be realized ! Our hearts and our 

 feelings are with our eyes, as we peer into the palms and try to 

 make out in which hut or house lives the "white man with the gray 

 beard" we -had already heard about. 



"Unfurl the flags, and load your guns." 



