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CHAPTER XXL 



LIVINGSTONE AND STANLEY. 

 a.d. 1871-1872. 



Mr. Gordon Bennett sends Stanley in search of Livingstone — Stanley at 

 Zanzibar — Starts for Ujiji — Reaches Unyanyembe — Dangerous illness — 

 War between Arabs and natives — Narrow escape of Stanley— Approach to 

 Ujiji — Meeting with Livingstone — Livingstone's story — Stanley's news — 

 Livingstone's goods and men at Bagamoio — Stanley's account of Livingstone 

 — Refutation of foolish and calumnious charges — They go to the north of the 

 lake— Livingstone resolves not to go home, but to get fresh men and return 

 to the sources — Letter to Agnes — to Sir Thomas Maclear — The travellers go 

 to Unyanyembe — More plundering of stores — Stanley leaves for Zanzibar — 

 Stanley's bitterness of heart at parting — Livingstone's intense gratitude to 

 Stanley — He intrusts his Journal to him, and commissions him to send 

 servants and stores from Zanzibar — Stanley's journey to the coast — Finds 

 Search Expedition at Bagamoio — Proceeds to England — Stanley's reception — 

 Unpleasant feelings — Eclaircissement — England grateful to Stanley. 



The meeting of Stanley and Livingstone at Ujiji was as 

 unlikely an occurrence as could have happened, and, along 

 with many of the earlier events in Livingstone's life, serves 

 to show how wonderfully an Unseen Hand shaped and 

 guarded his path. Neither Stanley nor the gentleman 

 who sent him had any personal interest in Livingstone. 

 Mr. Bennett admitted frankly that he was moved neither 

 by friendship nor philanthropy, but by regard to his 

 business and interest as a journalist. The object of a 

 journal was to furnish its readers with the news which 

 they desired to know ; the readers of the New York 

 Herald desired to know about Livingstone ; as a jour- 

 nahst, it was his business to find out and tell them. Mr. 



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