444 THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



with the greatest awe, and after a fe\v desperate efforts succeeded 



in getting the box safely ashore. 



It would be tedious to write more concerning the home march, 

 as no incident of special interest occurred. Stanley reached 

 Bagamoyo on May 7th, in good health and astonishingly good 

 spirits. He was much surprised to meet, among the first persons 

 he saw in the village, Lieutenant Henn, of the Royal Navy, and 

 Mr. Oswald Livingstone, son of the Doctor, who had been dis- 

 patched to relieve the great traveler. The lieutenant, a young, 

 dandyish-looking fellow, was delighted to learn that Stanley had 

 accomplished the object for which the " Herald" had sent him, 

 as it saved him a " uawsty twip among the howid people of Cen- 

 twal Afwica." The English relief expedition was abandoned, 

 and the young lieutenant and Oswald Livingstone both returned 

 to England. 



ENGLISH JEALOUSY. 



STANLEY'S success at first greatly aroused the jealousy of the 

 English people. He being an American, they seemed to think it 

 a piece of Yankee impertinence for him to try to find and 

 save Livingstone. This jealousy even extended to the Govern- 

 ment, for in the instructions to the commander of the British 

 relief expedition, not a word of reference was made to the 

 American expedition. 



" In your orders," said Stanley to Lieut. Henn, "is there 

 nothing said as to what you were to do in the event of your 

 meeting me?" 



" Not a word, though they knew it well ; for one of the mem- 

 bers of the Royal Geographical Society suggested to me privately 

 that I might possibly be able to relieve you. I knew nothing 

 of your expedition except from your letter to the Herald;'' but 

 we had been informed that you were sick from fever, and prob- 

 ably dead. When I arrived here I heard much about you, and 

 we heard a report that you had found Livingstone the very day 

 we came here ; but we did not pay much attention to it. It was 

 not until I talked with your own men that I came to the conclu- 

 sion that I was not wanted, and therefore resigned." 



