758 LIFE OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



there were many people who, for the sake of cavilling, ignored the state of 

 the country, and the difficulties travellers had to endure. When natives 

 would not sell food it must be got, or travellers starved. If the travellers 

 tried to take the food the natives would try to kill them, and to prevent this 

 travellers had to use force. Mr. Stanley did so, and got his food. With re- 

 spect to the difficulties as to carrying the boat surrounding Mr. Stanley, the 

 feat was to be admired more, perhaps, than any other. He (Sir S. Baker) 

 and his party took out boats, but they never had any one to carry them, and 

 never got one of them near the lake. Even when Mr. Stanley was navigat- 

 ing the lake in the ' Lady Alice,' he encountered much hostility from the 

 natives." After an exhaustive address upon certain geographical points in 

 the district referred to in the paper, Sir Samuel Baker concluded amid cheers. 



Captain Burton, who was very warmly received, said he had already 

 complimented Mi*. Stanley for his undaunted perseverance ; and he quoted 

 former statements of his own in that room with respect to the Victoria Nyanza, 

 which had now been actually proved by Mr. Stanley to have been correct. 

 The existence of lakes to the north, north-east, and possibly to the east 

 of the Victoria Nyanza, was still, he thought, extremely possible. 



The President — " The meeting is aware that it is to the proprietors of 

 • The Daily Telegraph ' and the ■ New York Herald,' we are indebted for the 

 highly important and interesting particulars upon which the paper of to-night 

 and the discussion are founded. Mr. Arnold, who is a friend of Mr. Stanley, is 

 amongst us to-night, and I shall call upon him to acknowledge the hearty enco- 

 miums passed upon his friend." 



Mr. Edwin Arnold said — " It is because the President does not desire to 

 leave any blank in the records of an evening so important to geographical 

 science as this is, that I rise to detain you a moment after hearing orators so 

 illustrious. Since the whole discussion this evening has constituted one mag- 

 nificent encomium upon the labours of my friend Mr. Stanley, it may seem 

 good that I should tender a brief form of thanks, which I trust he may one 

 day fill up in this hall. I thank you very earnestly in his name, and, as far 

 as I may speak at all for those two allied journals which have been so happy 

 as to commission Mr. Stanley, I thank you also most sincerely. 



