CHAPTER XIV. 
Stani^ey's Perseverance—Mastering Mountains oe Diffi- 
cuety~Bent on Finding Eivingstone—Characteristics 
OF THE Two Great Expeorers—Livingstone's Touching 
Reference to the Death of His Wife—Wonderfue Re- 
SUETS of African Expeoration—Staneey Approaches 
Ujiji— News of a Brother White Man—Great Excite¬ 
ment Among tpie Traveeeers—Fine Exampee of the 
Angeo-Saxon Spirit—Life Given to Ethiopia's Dusky 
Chiedren—Livingstone's Marveeeous Love for Africa. 
I IVINGSTONE was now lost in the jungles of the great dark 
^ continent. Two or three minor expeditions had started to 
search for him, but did not proceed very far. It remained for 
Henry M. Stanley to head a searching and exploration expedition 
that succeeded. 
Long and perilous days those were which were passed by 
Stanley and his caravan. Yet they illustrate one of the most import¬ 
ant lessons of life, which is that no one is to make more than a day's 
journey at a time and that the most practical method of overcoming 
difficulties is to take them and master them one by one. If Stanley 
had been less resolute, if he had been easily discouraged, if he were 
one of the men who make a sudden start and then as suddenly halt, 
if he had not been a kind of Hercules in body and in soul, if he had 
possessed less of the push and enterprise which always go with a 
great character, the world would never have rung with acclaim at 
his achievements. 
It was a new experience to him, that of traversing the wilds of 
the Dark Continent, quelling mutiny among his men, meeting 
unfriendly chiefs who were given to rapacious extortion, and plung¬ 
ing on through jungles, thickets and pathless tracts, untrodden and 
unmarked, yet he had gone with the definite purpose of finding Liv¬ 
ingstone, and, as we read the story of his successful search, we are 
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