12 AFEICA AND HER FUTURE. 



fever, most of the time without other white person near 

 Mm and with no resources by which to secure native help, 

 except his own loving spirit. Even, when afterward 

 he returned as English consul and agent of the Geograph- 

 ical Society, we blush as we read that each gave him 

 £500 salary and a friend added a thousand pounds, thus 

 making barely enough for actual expenses, (Stanley's last 

 trip cost about £400 a day), that he met bitter opposition 

 from the Dutch boersand Portuguese, and that the gov- 

 ernment in all these diflB.culties gave him only half- 

 hearted and generally ineffectual support; yet he opened 

 a path across Africa, mostly where no white man had 

 preceded him, and discovered and explored many of the 

 lakes and rivers. We admire his pride and independence 

 when we read that without a murmur he accepted the 

 mean terms offered by his employers, and set about sell- 

 ing the small steamer which he had built for African ex- 

 ploration, to make up the needed amount; and that rather 

 than let the Portuguese in Africa buy her for use in the 

 slave trade, he sailed in her from Mozambique across the 

 Indian Ocean to Bombay, 2,500 miles, with three sailors, 

 himself captain and pilot. When the government after- 

 wards asked what they could do for him, thinking of a 

 pension, he asked, thinking not of rest but of work, that 

 they would by treaty with the Portuguese, secure for 

 him free access to the Shire highlands. 



We see him overcoming the opposition of the wild 

 tribes by tact and kindness, building his house with his 

 own hands, noting the habits of birds and beasts, studying 

 astronomy at the Cape, taking observations, so correctly 

 that Sir Thomas Maclear, the astronomer royal could say: 

 "I say what that man has done is unprecedented. You 

 could go to any part across the entire continent along Liv- 

 ingston' s track and feel certain of your position. His are 

 the finest specimens of geographical observations I have 

 ever met with." 



