406 LIFE OF LA VID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



" Said I, wondering at the cool order of sending one to Central Africa to 

 search for a man whom I, in common with almost all other men, believed to 

 be dead, ' Have you considered seriously the great expense you are likely to 

 incur on account of this little journey ?' 



te l What will it cost ? ' he asked abruptly. ' Burton and Speke's journey 

 to Central Africa cost between £3,000 and £5,000, and I fear it cannot be 

 done under £2,500.' 



" ' Well, I will tell you what you will do. Draw a thousand pounds now ; 

 and when you have gone through that, draw another thousand ; and when 

 that is spent, draw another thousand ; and when you have finished that, draw 

 another thousand; and so on, but — Find Livingstone.' " 



After some further conversation, Mr. Stanley asked if he was to go at 

 once. Mr. Bennet answered, " No; I wish you to go to the inauguration of 

 the Suez canal first, and then proceed up the Nile. . . Then you might 

 as well go to Jerusalem ; I hear Captain Warner is making some interesting 

 discoveries there. Then next to Constantinople, and find out about that trouble 

 between the Khedive and the Sultan. Then — let me see — you might as well 

 visit the Crimea and those old battle-grounds. Then go across the Caucasus 

 to the Caspian Sea ; I hear there is a Russian expedition bound for Khiva. 

 From thence you may go through Persia to India ; you could write an inter- 

 esting letter from Perseopolis. 



" Bagdad will be close on your way to India ; suppose you go there, and 

 write up something about the Euphrates Valley Railway. Then when you 

 have come to India, you can go after Livingstone. Probably you will hear 

 by that time that Livingstone is on his way to Zanzibar ; but if not, go into 

 the interior and find him. If alive, get what news of his discoveries yoti can ; 

 and if you find he is dead, bring all possible proof of his being dead. That 

 is all : good-night, and Cod be with you." 



Mr. Stanley carried out the programme Mr. Bennet chalked out for him, 

 and chronicled the incidents of his journeyings in the New York Herald, and 

 arrived in India in the month of August, 1870. He sailed from Bombay for 

 the Mauritius on the 12th of October, and after touching at Mahe, an island of 

 the Leychelles group, he, in company with William Lawrence Farquhar, mate, 

 a Scotchman, and an Arab boy he had picked up to act as interpreter, sailed 

 in an American whaling vessel, bound for Zanzibar, which they reached on 

 the 6th of January, 1871. Captain Webb, the American Consul at Zanzibar, 

 after hearing the nature of his mission, entertained him at his house, and did 

 all he could to assist him in his preparations for the journey he had under- 

 taken. The following is Mr. Stanley's account of the City of Zanzibar : — 



" My general impressions are of crooked, narrow lanes, white- washed 

 houses, mortar-plastered streets in the clean quarter ; of seeing alcoves on each 

 side, with deep recesses, with a foreground of red-turbaned Banyans (East 



