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" WTiy did they not mention my name in the instructions? 

 They knew, according to what you say, that I was in the country ; 

 and, no matter how poor a traveler I might have been, it was a 

 contingency that might arise." 



" The truth is, they didn't want you to find him. You cannot 

 imagine how jealous they are at home about this expedition of 

 yours." 



" Not find Livingstone ! What does it matter to them who 

 finds and helps him, so long as he is found and relieved?" 



This was the first shock Stanley had received, and from this 

 moment he regarded himself as a doomed man with the English 

 people. That anyone should have been so inhuman as to desire 

 his failure, because it was an American expedition, was the 

 remotest idea that could have been entertained. Until that 

 moment he had never given a thought as to how people would 

 regard his success or failure. He had been too busily employed 

 in his work even to think of such a wild and improbable thing as 

 that any people would rather hope that Dr. Livingstone should be 

 irrecoverably lost than that an American journalist should find him. 



But he was not long at Zanzibar before he was thoroughly 

 aware of the animus that prevailed in England. He was shown 

 clippings from newspapers, wherein several members of the 

 Royal Geographical Society had ridiculed the American expedi- 

 tion, and one member had even gone so far as to say that it 

 required the " steel head of an Englishman " to penetrate Africa. 



Englishmen are peculiar and sometimes distressingly stupid, 

 but they are not- always unjust, and sometimes not often 

 change rashly formed opinions. In Stanley's case, their jealousy 

 was soon modified. He left Zanzibar on May 29th, and after 

 .-:ome trying delays arrived in England, and was afterward received 

 with kindness and distinction by the English people ; but it cannot 

 be said that they have ever put a worthy estimate upon his labors 

 in behalf of their distinguished fellow-countryman. 



