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studies history knows very well that every man is building higher 
than he thinks, accomplishing more than he imagines, casting off 
results that are left behind him as he crowds on, while his uncon¬ 
scious influence and the incidental effects of his life and undertak¬ 
ings are such as we have no scales for weighing. 
After having been lost half a dozen years, Livingstone is to 
be met by a brother white man, who will assure him that the world 
is interested in his welfare. It will be to him a surprise, and a piece 
STANLEY ON THE MARCH. 
of intelligence as gratifying as it is unexpected. It will convince 
him that his heroic sacrifices are not forgotten, and will be treasured 
and commemorated after he is gone. 
In his thrilling account of the meeting with Livingstone, 
Stanley says: We push on rapidly, lest the news of our coming 
might reach the people of Ujiji before we come in sight, and are 
ready for them. We halt at a little brook, then ascend the long slope 
of a naked ridge, the very last of the myriads we have crossed. 
This alone prevents us from seeing the lake in all its vastness. We 
arrive at the summit, travel across and arrive at its western rim. 
