734 LIFE OF DA VID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



"As for Mr. Stanley, he was travelling as the representative of 'The 

 Daily Telegraph' and 'New York Herald.' He had left Zanzibar four months 

 before I met him, to explore the Victorian Lake. He had penetrated through 

 the country of the Masai, and had certified the existence of a great watershed 

 discharging into the lake from the eastern slope. Leaving at Usuvuma his 

 camp and followers, he had embarked with ten men in a little vessel which 

 he had conveyed along with him upon the Victoria Nyanza. He had followed 

 and explored all the eastern side of the lake, penetrating every bay, gulf, and 

 creek, and surveying the islands and the capes. I have studied the results 

 of Mr. Stanley's explorations, which are very considerable. He has shown 

 me his sketches of some extremely curious islands that he discovered. There 

 are a bridge island, a cave island, and an island of the Sphynx. The first 

 presents a natural bridge of granite, with all the appearance of a work con- 

 structed by the hand of man. The second contains an enchanted grotto, like 

 Calypso's. The third offers the aspect of the Sphynx of Egypt. We talked 

 together until eleven o'clock at night. Stanley is a first-rate traveller — a 

 brave, light-hearted gentleman, a good comrade, a patient explorer, taking 

 everything as it comes. I derived the truest pleasure from his instructive and 

 varied conversation. He has travelled far and wide, and seen a great deal. 

 He knows the whole world. It was four months since I had heard a single 

 French word pronounced. It was a great pleasure, therefore, to hear Stanley 

 talking, for, without, expressing himself with perfect accuracy, he yet talked 

 French sufficiently well to enable us readily to converse. This meeting of 

 two white men in the heart of Africa, was well nigh as delightful as to meet 

 a compatriot there, and the pleasure was quite inexpressible in discovering, 

 in my unexpected friend, a man so well known and so entirely agreeable. 

 According to what Mr. Stanley told me, Mtesa is extremely proud of finding 

 his capital thus visited by white men, nor does he think that the event can be 

 accidental." 



A second part of this report was afterwards forwarded to the Egyptian 

 Minister of War ; and by his authority it was transmitted to this country, 

 and published, like all the rest of these documents,, in "The Daily Tele- 

 graph." It gives a graphic and touching description of the parting scene 

 between the two travellers : — ■ 



" Uganda, Thursday, April 15, 1875. 



" Mr. Stanley is leaving us in order to accomplish the work of exploring 

 the western side of the lake, thereafter intending to return to Usuvuma, to 

 pick up his followers and the goods left at Kagehyi. I had arranged to 

 accompany him as far as Usovara, the point of embarkation in Murchison 

 Bay. We start together, therefore, this morning, I having lent one of my 

 mules to my friend, and ordered ten of my soldiers to escort us. 



" We commence the journey by rounding the hill upon which His Majesty 



