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STANLEY'S SEARCH FOR LIVINGSTONE 
No better man could have been found for the purpose intended 
than Henry M. Stanley. A Welshman by birth, an American by adop¬ 
tion, he had, in the Civil War, served on both the Confederate and the 
Northern side, and afterwards, as the correspondent of the New York 
Herald, had proved himself one of the most daring and successful of 
travelers. He had gone to Abyssinia during the English war with 
that country, and had won laurels as a war correspondent. 
Before setting out on the expedition with which we are concerned 
he made a long and perilous journey through Turkey, Persia, Afghan¬ 
istan and’ India to Bombay, whence he sailed for Zanzibar, arriving 
there on the 6th of January, 1871. He had with him two men, Farqu- 
har, a Scotch seaman, and Selim, an Arab boy, whom he had engaged 
in Egypt as an interpreter and on whom he afterwards greatly de¬ 
pended. 
Zanzibar is the gateway of Eastern Africa. Here Stanley 
engaged his carriers and soldiers and purchased his outfit, consisting 
largely of cloth, beads and’ brass wire, the money then most current in 
Africa. It embraced also the animals, tents, ammunition, etc., neces¬ 
sary for the expedition. His comrades, in addition to the two named, 
consisted of John W. Shaw, an English seaman, a number of soldiers 
who had formerly served under Captain Speke, and a large number of 
carriers and negro attendants. 
Other explorers had been in that region before him, and Burton 
and Speke had discovered Lake Tanganyika thirteen years before. 
The Victoria Nyanza had also been discovered, but no one knew what 
connection there might be between these two great lakes, and the vast 
region of Central Africa west of these lakes was utterly unknown. 
Livingstone had traversed it in part, but what he had done was still 
a sealed book. For a number of years he had been lost to sight in the 
heart of Africa, no one knew if he was alive or dead, and interest in 
his fate was so great that there could have been no more important 
mission than that given Stanley to “find Livingstone.” 
We cannot describe in detail Stanley’s interesting journey. Leav¬ 
ing Zanzibar on the 5th of February, 1871, he soon plunged into 
savage Africa. His force was divided into five caravans, sent forward 
at intervals of a few days; the total number of the expedition amounted 
to nearly two hundred men. 
