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■were waiting to receive them, and notwithstanding that they had been pre- 

 pared for witnessing a case of suffering and destitution, the forlorn appearance 

 of the three youths startled them. Mr. Stanley's clothing, if clothing it could 

 be called, consisted almost exclusively of a single over-covering ; he had nei- 

 ther shirt nor stockings, and his companions were in no better plight. Mr. 

 Morris would appear to have been a model minister, for he at once advanced 

 Mr. Stanley £150 without security of any kind." , 



So vigorously did Mr. Morris press the case of his suffering countrymen 

 upon the attention of the Turkish Government that the brigands were sen- 

 tenced to various terms of imprisonment, and the loss they had sustained in 

 money and property was made good — the Grand Vizier, AH Pacha, actually 

 concluding the arrangements with Mr. Morris. The services of an English 

 Consul in Asia Minor were also pressed into the service, and he watched the trial 

 of the robbers on behalf of Mr. Morris, who had no official countryman within 

 hail. English travellers abroad must think with envy of the readiness 

 with which Yankee officials attend to the interests of their wandering 

 countrymen. 



Mr. Stanley returned to the United States early in 1867, and acted for 

 some time as correspondent of the New York Tribune and the Missouri Demo- 

 crat, with General Hancock's expedition against the Kiowa and Cheyenne 

 Indians. On his return from this congenial expedition he, along with a com- 

 panion, constructed a raft, and floated down the Platte river to its junction 

 with the Missouri, a distance of seven hundred miles. Mr. Stanley's biographer 

 says: — " This was an exploit strikingly illustrative of the enterprising character 

 of Stanley, for we may safely assume that it was instigated by him. Travel 

 by the lumbering stage down the valley of the Platte, for seven hundred miles, 

 would have been a dull and prosaic method of finding his way back to civiliza- 

 tion after several months' raid against the Indian tribes of the far west. A 

 raft voyage was not without its dangers ; the Indians might prove hostile ; an 

 unexpected encounter with a snag might shiver the raft into its respective 

 fragments and drown the two voyagers, or a grizzly bear might pay a visit to 

 their night encampment on the banks of the river, and make an end of them. 

 But dangers like these would only give a zest to the adventure." 



Mr. Stanley's letters from the far west, abounded with details of horrible 

 massacres by the Indians, who had been goaded into madness by the ill-usage 

 they received from the frontier men. No compact is kept with them ; further 

 and further westward they are being driven from the land of their forefathers by 

 the advancing tide of the pale faces. The pioneers of civilization there, as else- 

 where, are a reckless and lawless class, and they think as little of shooting an 

 Indian as an Englishman would of shooting a hare. When one reads of a 

 terrible instance of Indian vengeance, when whole families have been put to 

 death after unheard-of tortures, we are apt to forget that some cruel wrong 



