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our time has been so well equipped with courage, latent resources, 
command of men, sturdy heroism and self-sacrifice as he was for 
the almost miraculous task confided to him by his wealthy and enter¬ 
prising patron, Mr. Bennett. 
In reading of his adventures and successes, we are quite apt 
to lose sight of certain great results which must inevitably follow- 
from his journeys in Africa. We see only the lost explorer, Liv¬ 
ingstone, admired and beloved by half the world, his terrible suffer¬ 
ings and the slow wasting of his life. But this man, this hero to 
whom so many eyes are turned, this great explorer, who, like 
Stanley, was much more than a mere adventurer, is only one figure 
in the vivid scene which passes before our eyes. It will not do to 
limit our thought to either of these men or to both of them. 
TWO FAMOUS TRAVELERS. 
Livingstone had forsaken his early home and his fatherland; 
all the hardship that comes to one by being in an uncivilized country 
fell to his lot; the wife who had shared his fortunes, and quite as 
often, his misfortunes, had been rudely torn from his side; the vast 
benefit to savage races which she as well as her illustrious husband 
was capable of imparting was suddenly lost. The beautiful and 
touching reference of Livingstone to her grave, which has been 
related, is something that must move the heart of every reader. 
Stanley’s journeys were free from some of the incidents which 
are so thrilling in those of the one he was trying to find, yet others 
fell to his lot with which Livingstone was unacquainted. And so 
this man stands out in strong proportions, with a most remarkable 
individuality of his own; a man raised up for a certain work, peculiar 
in his make-up, endowed for adventure and exploit, and ages hence 
history will turn to him and write some of its most eloquent pages. 
Still it is true that the great interest of African exploration 
does not gather around either of these men, or both of them, except 
as they are the instruments for penetrating a continent hitherto 
dark and unknown; for what they achieved in bringing the dark 
races of Africa under the full light of modern civilization and 
Christianity is, after all, the finest thing to be noted. Whoever 
H. B. G.—13 
