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APPEARANCE OP STANLEY. 
minds of the slaves sent with the idea that they are 
not to follow me, hut, in accordance with some fabulous 
letter force me back. This they have propagated all through 
the country, and really seem to believe it. My letters to 
the coast having been so often destroyed, I had relinquished 
hope of ever obtaining help from Zanzibar, and proposed 
when I became stronger to work my way down to Mteza 
or linker for help and men. A vague rumor reached Ujiji 
in the beginning of last month that an Englishman had cornu 
to TTnyanyembe with boats, horses, men and goods in 
abundance. It was in vain to conjecture who this could 
be; and my eager inquiries were met by answers so con- 
tradictory that I began to doubt if any stranger had come 
at all. But one day, I cannot say which, for I was three 
weeks too fast in my reckoning, my man Susicame dashing 
up in great excitement, and gasped out, “An Englishman 
coming ; see him ! ” and oil' he ran to meet him. The 
American flag at the head of the caravan told me the na- 
tionality of the stranger. It was Henry M. Stanley, the 
travelling correspondent of the New York Herald, sent by 
the son of the editor, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., at an 
expense of £4000 to obtain correct information about me 
if living, and if dead to bring homo my bones. The kind- 
ness was extreme, and made my whole frame thrill with 
excitement and gratitude. 
I had been left nearly destitute by the moral idiot She- 
reef selling oir my goods for slaves and ivory for himself. 
My condition was sufficiently forlorn, for I had but a very 
few articles for barter left of what I had taken the pre- 
caution to leave here, in case of extreme need. The strange 
news Mr. Stanley had to tell to one for years out of com- 
munication with the world was quite reviving. Appetite 
returned, and in a week 1 began to feel strong. Having 
men and goods, and information that search for an outlet 
of the Tanganyika was desired by Sir Roderick Murchi- 
son, we went for a month’s cruise down to its northern end. 
This was a pleasure trip compared to the weax - y tramp- 
