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paid in it. Every traveler who compares the coast na- 

 tives who have been long under the blighting effect of 

 contact with whites, with those of inland districts, finds 

 in the first brntality and viciousness which is shown no- 

 where else in Africa. 



The story of African exploration shows repeated in- 

 stances of courage undaunted by perils and of patient 

 endurance which no toils or difficulties could exhaust. 

 The iong list of names made thus famous begins with 

 Mungo Park, at the close of the last century, and ends 

 with Henry M. Stanley whose enterprises are familiar to 

 us all. His career is an uninterrupted series of successes, 

 beginning with the time when, in 1871, he found Living- 

 ston, reduced to a skeleton, in beggary and more broken 

 in spirit than at any other time, and brought to him help 

 and encouragement, down to the time when he carried 

 his column through the equatorial forest and met Emin 

 Pasha on Lake Albert Nyanza. Whether in this last ex- 

 pedition he really succeeded in the main object for which 

 he started, has been questioned. The friends of Emin 

 maintain that the fruit of his years of struggle in the Sou- 

 dan, during which as Gordon's successor he had striven so 

 manfully and so successfully to redeem and maintain the 

 province, were by his departure wholly lost. But Stanley 

 did succeed in opening a district hitherto unknown and in 

 taking the first step, by contact and treaty with the tribes, 

 to make the district passable for Europeans hereafer. 



But the highest place among African explorers be- 

 longs to David Livingston. His discoveries need be 

 placed second to those of no other, even if no allowance is 

 made for circumstances. How much more remarkable 

 do they appear when we remember that he made his first 

 and perhaps greatest jonrney almost unaided; a poor 

 Scotch peasant's son, seeking to carry the gospel to these 

 dark lands, discouraged by both the Missionary Society 

 and by his family, stricken almost continually with 



