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hearing this, Lieutenant Dawson hurried to Zanzibar to 

 see Dr. Kirk, and resigned his command. Lieutenant 

 Henn soon after followed his example by resigning too. 

 They thought that as Dr. Livingstone had been relieved 

 there was no need for their going on. Mr. New likewise 

 declined to proceed. Mr. W. Oswell Livingstone was 

 thus left alone, at first full of the determination to go on 

 to his father with the men whom Stanley was providing ; 

 but owing to the state of his health, and under the 

 advice of Dr. Kirk, he too declined to accompany the 

 expedition, so that the men from Zanzibar proceeded to 

 Unyanyembe alone. 



On the 29th of May, Stanley, with Messrs. Henn, 

 Livingstone, New, and Morgan, departed in the " Africa" 

 from Zanzibar, and in due time reached Europe. 



It was deeply to be regretted that an enterprise so 

 beautiful and so entirely successful as Mr. Stanley's 

 should have been in some degree marred by ebullitions 

 of feeling little in harmony with the very joyous event. 

 The leaders of the English Search Expedition and 

 their friends felt, as they expressed it, that the wind 

 had been taken out of their sails. They could not but 

 rejoice that Livingstone had been found and relieved, but 

 it was a bitter thought that they had had no hand in 

 the process. It was galling to their feelings as English- 

 men that the brilliant service had been done by a stranger, 

 a newspaper correspondent, a citizen of another country. 

 On a small scale that spirit of national jealousy showed 

 itself, which on a wider arena has sometimes endangered 

 the relations of England and America. 



When Stanley reached England, it was not to be 

 overwhelmed with gratitude. At first the Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society received him coldly. Instead of his 

 finding Livingstone, it was surmised that Livingstone 

 had found him. Strange things were said of him at the 

 British Association at Brighton. The daily press actually 



