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grave fears were aroused for the safety of Livingstone, who had 
done so much, and whose efforts it was hoped would yet solve 
the great geographic problems his travels had evolved. A man, 
patient in suffering, and with a tenacity of purpose that over- 
comes the greatest obstacles, he had endeared himself to those 
who sought knowledge from his labors, and it was, therefore, 
with unfeigned regret that men spoke of the possibility that 
calamity had overtaken him, and that the work of the last years 
of his life would possibly be lost. The editor of an influential 
New York journal, sympathizing with the deep interest that was 
felt, and doubtless actuated to some extent by the notoriety suc- 
cess would bring to his journal, determined upon organizing an 
expedition to ascertain Livingstone’s fate, and thus brought 
before the world the hitherto obscure correspondent Henry M. 
Stanley. The rare good judgment that selected Mr. Stanley for 
the command of such a hazardous expedition was more than 
demonstrated by subsequent events. The first reports that Liy- 
ingstone had been succored were received with incredulity, but 
as the facts became known incredulity gave way to unstinted. 
praise, and Mr. Stanley was accorded a place among those who 
had justly earned a reward from the whole civilized world. 
A few years after his return from his successful mission for 
the relief of Livingstone, he was commissioned in the joint 
interests of the New York Herald and London Daily Telegraph, 
to command an expedition for the exploration of central Africa. 
Traversing the continent from east to west, he added largely to 
our knowledge of the lake region and was the first to bring us 
facts of the course of the Congo. This expedition placed him 
before the world as one of the greatest of explorers, and it seems, 
therefore, to have been but natural that, when a great humanita- 
rian expedition was to be organized nearly ten years later to pen- 
etrate into the still unknown regions of the equatorial belt for 
the relief of Emin Pasha, that he should have been selected to 
command it. How faithfully he performed this task we are only 
just learning, and our admiration increases with every new chap- 
ter that is placed before us. That he was successful in the main 
object of the expedition is self-evident, having brought Emin 
. Pasha and the remnant of his followers to the coast with him. 
The expedition has also been fruitful in geographic details, and 
though we have not as yet the data to change the maps to accord 
with all the newly discovered facts, we may feel assured of their 
