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suitable men should be sent up from the coast ; but he 

 had never thought of having to wait in beggary, If any- 

 thing could have aggravated the annoyance, it was to see 

 Shereef come, without shame, to salute him, and tell him 

 on leaving, that he was going to pray ; or to see his slaves 

 passing from the market with all the good things his 

 property had bought ! Livingstone applied a term to 

 him which he reserved for men — black or white — whose 

 wickedness made them alike shameless and stupid — he 

 was a "moral idiot." 



It was the old story of the traveller who fell among 

 thieves that robbed him of all he had; — but where was the 

 good Samaritan ? The Government and the Geographical 

 Society appeared to have passed by on the other side. But 

 the good Samaritan was not so far off as might have been 

 thought. One morning Syed bin Majid, an Arab trader, 

 came to him with a generous offer to sell some ivory and 

 get goods for him ; but Livingstone had the old feeling 

 of independence, and having still a few barter goods left, 

 which he had deposited with Mohamad bin Saleh before 

 going to Manyuema, he declined for the present Syed's 

 generous offer. But the kindness of Syed was not the 

 only proof that he was not forsaken. Five days after he 

 reached Ujiji the good Samaritan appeared from another 

 quarter. As Livingstone had been approaching Ujiji 

 from the south-west, another white man had been 

 approaching it from the east. On 28th October 1871, 

 Henry Moreland Stanley, who had been sent to look 

 for him by Mr. James Gordon Bennett, junior, of the New 

 York Herald newspaper, grasped the hand of David Living- 

 stone. An angel from heaven could hardly have been more 

 welcome. In a moment the sky brightened. Stanley 

 was provided with ample stores, and was delighted 

 to supply the wants of the traveller. The sense of sym- 

 pathy, the feeling of brotherhood, the blessing of fellow- 

 ship, acted like a charm. Four good meals a day, instead 



