466 LIFE OF DA VID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



old friends — and visited the work-house at St. Asaph, and made a speech to 

 the children. The Board of Management were very much gratified at the 

 visit. One of the members said, in speaking of the visit — " He came gratefully, 

 and, I may say, gracefully, to see his former acquaintances, and to return 

 thanks to the Governors for the kindness he had formerly received, and to 

 show how well he had merited the indulgence shown to him. 



Shortly after this Mr. Stanley resigned his commission, and became the 

 leading actor in a most extraordinary adventure. Along with two young 

 companions, Mr. Cook and Mr. Noe, he formed a resolution of undertaking a 

 journey in Asia Minor. The three adventurers landed at Smyrna, and pene- 

 trated into the interior, on horseback, as far as Chi-Hissar, about three hundred 

 miles from the coast. At that place Noe was guilty of some imprudence, 

 which exposed him to the ire of a formidable Turk, the chief of a gang of 

 brigands, who gave him a good caning. In the excitement of the moment, 

 Stanley drew a sword, with which he was armed, and struck him from his 

 horse, and would undoubtedly have slain him but for the protecting folds of 

 his turban. After an adventure of this nature, there was nothing for it but 

 flight. Unfortunately they rode right into the robber's head quarters, and 

 were immediately seized, stripped, and maltreated, and all their money and 

 valuables taken from them. The robber who was struck hit upon an artful 

 expedient for hiding the outrage he and his party had been guilty of. He 

 took the luckless travellers before the Cadi, and charged them with assault and 

 robbery. "When asked what they had to say to this charge, Mr Stanley, as 

 spokesman of the party, addressed the Cadi, who, fortunately, was acquainted 

 with the English tongue, and said, "That so far from having attempted to rob 

 their captors, they themselves had been robbed of everything they possessed, 

 and if certain members of the party were searched (here he pointed with his 

 finger to some of the robbers), evidence of his assertion would be proved." 



On the men being searched, many of the missing articles were found upon 

 them, a result which the daring young fellow knew how to improve. He 

 threatened all and sundry with the vengeance of Brother Jonathan if they 

 were not at once set at liberty, and their property restored to them, and the 

 robbers punished. His eloquence had such an effect upon the Cadi that the 

 robbers were put under arrest. At Afiun-Kara-Hissar, M. Pelesa, of the Otto- 

 man Bank, provided them with some money and clothes to enable them to proceed 

 to Constantinople. Within a few days' march of Constantinople, Mr. Stanley 

 sent a letter detailing the usage they had received to Mr. E. Joy Morris, the 

 United States Representative at the Turkish Government. Another letter 

 was sent for insertion to the Levant Herald, so that by the time the ragged and 

 worn travellers reached the " City of the Sultan," the whole Frankish com- 

 munity was busy with their sufferings and their wrongs. When they arrived 

 at the American Consulate, "Mr. Morris and the American Consul- General 



