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THE ORIGIN OF THE STANLEY EXPEDITIONS. 
‘“Do you suppose he is alive?' 
“ ‘ I really don’t know.’ 
“ ‘ What do you think of it?’ 
“ ‘ It passes my comprehension,' 
“ 1 Well, I think lie is alive, and I want yon to find 
him!’ 
“ I thought it was a most gigantic task, but I dared not 
say no to Mr. Bennett. I answered: 
“ ‘ If you send me to Central Africa, I shall go there.’ 
“ He said: ‘Well, go. I believe he is alive, and you can 
find him ! ’ 
“I said: ‘Mr. Bennett, have you the least idea how 
much that little journey will cost ? The Burton and Speke 
expedition cost between £2000 and £4000. Are you ready 
to incur that expense V 
“Mr. Bennett replied: ' Draw £1000, and when that is 
finished draw another £1000 ; and when that is done draw 
another £1000; and when you have got rid of that, draw 
another, and another 1 ’ ” 
The first information received of the success of Stanley’s 
search, was a letter in the Lahore Chronicle (E. I.), of May 
21st, 1812, dated at Zanzibar, and mentioning reports that 
Livingstone and Stanley were at Ujiji, having arrived there 
from a cannibal country, and tiiat they were living in the 
same house. This report was received incredulously in 
some quarters, but on July 15th, the Herald printed letters 
from Stanley, dated Kwihara, Unyanyembe, Sept. 20th, 
1871; Ujiji, Lake Taganyika, Nov. 10th, 1871, and Kwi- 
hara, Feb. 21st, 1872, and March 12th, 1872, in which an 
accouut was given of the progress and success of the expo* 
dition, and from which we give the following extract: 
“Two marches more, and we are entering the suburbs of 
Ujiji, firing away our guns as only exuberant heroes do, 
to the intense astonishment of the Arabs of Ujiji, who 
turned out en viaeee to know what it meant. Among those 
who came to question us were the servants of Dr. Living- 
stone, who shortly ran ahead in liasto to inform him that 
