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all — how I have made you all rich in cloth and money. You 

 know how when you behaved yourselves well I was your friend. 

 I gave you plenty to eat and plenty to wear. When you were 

 sick I looked after you. If I was so good to you, the great master 

 will be much more so. He has a pleasant voice and speaks 

 kind. When did you ever see him lift his hand against an 

 offender ? When you were wicked he did not speak to you in 

 anger : he spoke to you in tones of sorrow. Now will you 

 promise me that you will follow him — do what he tells you, 

 obey him in all things and not desert him?" 



" We will ! we will, my master ! " the men all cried fervently. 

 Then came the hand-shaking, and the caravan was on its way to 

 Unyanyembe. And Mr. Stanley stood watching the great, lazy 

 dhow, sailing slowly across the channel. He had finished his 

 work. Mr. Bennett had said: "The old man may be in want; 

 take enough with you to help him should he require it. Of 

 course you will act on your own plans, and do what you think 

 best — but find Livingstone." He had found Livingstone; 

 found him in want ; had helped him. When he reached Africa 

 he had found one relief expedition there. Others had failed — 

 this one failed. When he came back he found another starting 

 in — it was no longer needed. It had been reserved for an indi- 

 vidual American to fit out the successful expedition, and another 

 individual American to lead it to the deliverance of aiY English- 

 man. Private enterprise had stepped forward, unsolicited, and 

 relieved the suspense of the reading world. And now the case 

 stood thus : The distinguished traveller, provided with every 

 comfort, was sitting at Unyanyembe, drawing his charts and 

 arranging his notes for that which he trusted would be the 

 crowning journey of his life. A strong and faithful caravan 

 was on its way to serve him ; every man hired for two full years. 

 These facts were given to the world in hundreds of newspapers, 

 and flashing on all the wires. The hero of the enterprise which 

 had been rewarded with these splendid results was waiting on 

 the island of Zanzibar for a ship, thinking with joy and grati- 

 tude of the work he had been able to do, and just beginning to 

 find out what an ungracious reward a jealous government and 

 an incredulous world were proposing for him. 



It was a great comfort to him that, however the English 



