THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 401 



STANLEY'S 



TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 



CHAPTER XXII. 



IN SEARCH OF LIVINGSTONE. 



JAMES GORDON BENNETT, JR., proprietor of the New York 

 Herald, though often pronounced eccentric, is none the less a 

 genius in making a great newspaper greater. He is an American 

 in all that constitutes dash, pluck, energy and bold conception, 

 but he is also a cosmopolitan, having a home everywhere, so that 

 the whole world is familiar to him. 



For nearly two years the civilized world believed the common 

 report that Livingstone was dead ; this news was circulated at 

 Zanzibar by traders coming from Central Africa. Baker, who 

 had penetrated as far as the Albert Nyanza, enquired of natives 

 concerning the lost white man, but no tidings from him could be 

 gained, so that he too believed the great traveler had passed the 

 bourne whence none return. Bennett alone believed that Living- 

 stone was still alive, and he conceived the idea of proving his be- 

 lief by sending a man into Africa to find him. 



HENRY M. STANLEY, a vigorous, daring and most capable jour- 

 nalist, whose first schooling was received as a war correspondent 

 of the St. Louis Democrat, had attracted the notice of Bennett, 

 who gave him a roving commission through Europe as corres- 

 pondent of the Herald. Bennett had so much confidence in 

 Stanley, that he telegraphed him at Madrid, on the 16th of Oc- 

 tober, 1869, as follows ; " Come to Paris on important business. " 



