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servant] came running at the top of his speed, and gasped out, 

 'An Englishman ! I see him !' and off he darted to meet him. 

 The American flag at the head of a caravan told of the nation- 

 ality of the stranger. Bales of goods, baths of tin, huge kettles, 

 cooking-pots, tents, etc., made me think, 'This must be a luxu- 

 rious traveler, and not one at his wit's end like me.' 



" It was Henry Moreland Stanley, the traveling correspondent 

 of the New York Herald, sent by James Gordon Bennett, junior, 

 at an expense of more than $20,000, to obtain accurate informa- 

 tion about Dr. Livingstone if living, and if dead to bring home 

 my bones. The news he had to tell to one who had been two 

 full years without any tidings from Europe, made my whole frame 

 thrill. The terrible fate that had befallen France the telegraphic 

 cables successfully laid in the Atlantic the election of General 

 Grant the death of good Lord Clarendon, my constant friend 

 the proof that Her Majesty's Government had not forgotten me 

 in voting $5,000 for supplies, and many other points of interest, 

 revived emotions that had lain dormant in Manyuema. Appetite 

 returned ; and instead of the spare, tasteless two meals a day, I 

 ate four times daily, and in a week began to feel strong. I am 

 not of a demonstrative turn as cold, indeed, as we islanders 

 are usually reputed to be but this disinterested kindness of Mr. 

 Bennett, so nobly carried into effect by Mr. Stanley, was simply 

 overwhelming. I really do feel extremely grateful, and at the 

 same time I am a little ashamed at not being more worthy of the 

 generosity. Mr. Stanley has done his part with untiring energy ; 

 good judgment, in the teeth of very serious obstacles. His help- 

 mates turned outdepiaved blackguards, who, by their excesses at 

 Zanzibar and elsewhere, had ruined their constitutions and pre- 

 pared their systems to be fit provender for the grave. They had 

 used up their strength by wickedness, and were of next to no 

 service, but rather down-drafts and unbearable drags to progress." 



Dr. Livingstone on a previous occasion wrote from the interior 

 of Africa to the effect that Lake Tanganika poured its waters 

 into the Albert N'yanza lake of Baker. At the time, perhaps, 

 he hardly realized the interest that such an announcement was 



