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die. His recovery, at that time, he attributes 

 to a dose of sixtj' grains of quinine. Two 

 3^ears later he again broke down, and fled to 

 Europe for safety. His European staff num- 

 bered from first to last 253 men. Of these, 23 

 died from sickness, 4 were killed b}^ accident. 



ever, although without recalling one of the 

 hard words he had written of his subordinates, 

 Mr. Stanley confesses that his principal sta- 

 tions, Vivi, Manj-anga, and Leopoldville, were 

 located on very unhealth}' sites. They were 

 all on high land, and exposed to the cold winds 



HENRY M. BTA^-LEX {London Illustrated News). 



and 92 returned home. They were all in the 

 prime of life. At first this sickness and in- 

 tense desire to get away from the deadly river 

 is laid by our author to ' whisky ; ' next, to 

 'maUngering' and ' sojering.' Finally, how- 



blowing up-stream from the ocean. Strangel}- 

 enough, the low-lying stations above Leopold- 

 ville seem to have been very healthy. There 

 has been almost no sickness ; for instance, at 

 Equator Station, " with a river only five feet 



