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" Telegram No. 9, to Shiraz. 

 " { Tlie Ameer-ed-Dowlak offers me 45,000 tomans. Oh ! little man, thou 

 art mad.' 



" Answeb. — c The Shah has spoken truly : I will send 50,000 tomans.' 



" From his telegram to Bushire, he received answer that 10,000 tomans 

 would be sent immediately, which was accepted. This is the Shah and his 

 ways of government. The handsome sum of 150,000 tomans, or £60,000 

 sterling, was netted in one morning from the governors' privy purses His 

 governorships are sold to the highest bidder." 



Mr. Stanley arrived in England on the 1st August, 1872. His half-brother 

 and cousin from Denbigh met him on Dover pier, and accompanied their 

 now famous relative to London. Petty jealousy on the part of professional 

 geographers, and certain newspapers, prompted unworthy doubts as to the truth 

 of the story he had to tell ; and both in this country and in America it was 

 broadly hinted that Mr. Stanley had never seen Dr. Livingstone at all. The 

 day after Mr. Stanley's arrival, Lord Granville, and Dr. Livingstone's son 

 and daughter, bore testimony to the authenticity of the letters and despatches 

 he had forwarded to them. The first public appearance made by Mr. Stanley 

 was at the meeting of the British Association, held at Brighton during the 

 third week of August. The geographers had a theory that the waters of the 

 region Dr. Livingstone had been exploring for five years must find their way 

 to the Congo, notwithstanding that Dr. Livingstone stated it as his belief 

 that the Lualaba was in reality the Nile. Mr. Stanley's fiery nature was 

 thoroughly roused by the storm of doubts and cavils which had burst upon 

 him, and he indulged in an amount of hard hitting in reply to the discussion 

 which the reading of his paper had evoked, which was thoroughly enjoyed by 

 a large and enthusiastic audience. We give a few extracts from his address : — 



" Gentlemen of the Geographical Society — I have been invited to deliver 

 an address here before you, or rather, to read a paper on the Tanganyika. 

 Responding to that invitation, I came here ; but before entering upon that 

 subject, which seems to interest this scientific assemblage, permit me to say 

 something of your ' distinguished medallist ' and Associate, Dr. David Living- 

 stone. I found him in the manner already described, the story of which in 

 brief, is familiar to everybody. He was but little impaired in health, and but 

 a little better than the ' ruckle of bones' he came to Ujiji. With the story of 

 his sufferings, his perils, his many narrow escapes, related as they were by 

 himself, the man who had endured all these and still lived, I sympathised. 

 What he suffered far eclipses all that Ulysses suffered, and Livingstone but 

 needs a narrator like Homer, to make his name as immortal as the Greek 



