4 iS DAVID LIVINGSTONE. [chap. xxi. 



Bennett determined that, cost what it might, he would 

 find out, and give the news to his readers. These were 

 the very unromantic notions, with an under-current pro- 

 bably of better quality, that were passing through his 

 mind at Paris, on the 16th October 1869, when he sent 

 a telegram to Madrid, summoning Henry M. Stanley, 

 one of the " own correspondents " of his paper, to " come 

 to Paris on important business." On his arrival, Mr. 

 Bennett asked him bluntly, " Where do you think Living- 

 stone is ? " The correspondent could not tell — could not 

 even tell whether he was alive. " Well," said Mr. Bennett, 

 " I think he is alive, and that he may be found, and I 

 am going to send you to find him." Mr. Stanley was to 

 have whatever money should be found necessary ; only he 

 was to find Livingstone. It is very mysterious that he 

 was not to go straight to Africa — he was to visit Con- 

 stantinople, Palestine, and Egypt first. Then, from India, 

 he was to go to Zanzibar ; get into the interior, and find 

 him if alive ; obtain all possible news of his discoveries ; 

 and if he were dead, get the fact fully verified, find out 

 the place of his burial, and try to obtain possession of his 

 bones, that they might find a resting-place at home. 



It was not till January 1871 that Stanley reached 

 Zanzibar. To organise an expedition into the interior 

 was no easy task for one who had never before set foot 

 in Africa. To lay all his plans without divulging his 

 object would, perhaps, have been more difficult if it had 

 ever entered into any man's head to connect the Neiv 

 York Herald with a search for Livingstone. But indomi- 

 table vigour and perseverance succeeded, and by the end 

 of February and beginning of March, one hundred and 

 ninety-two persons in all had started in five caravans 

 at short intervals from Bagamoio for Lake Tanganyika, 

 two white men being of the party besides Stanley, with 

 horses, donkeys, bales, boats, boxes, rifles, etc., to an 

 amount that made the leader of the expedition ask 



