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STANLEY'S JOURNEY THROUGH AFRICA 
into Boma, 999 days after leaving Zanzibar, having traveled over 
7,000 miles in that time. The reception accorded to Stanley partook 
of the nature of a triumph, and the first few days at Boma were given 
up to that delicious rest and oblivion of danger from which he had so 
long been an exile. 
It would take many words to describe the joy and emotion, the 
surprise and admiration, with which the prowess of Stanley and the 
deeds of the Anglo-American Expedition were regarded. The feel¬ 
ings of all who took part may be very much more easily imagined than 
described. The “good master” had not only performed what he had 
set out to do, not only crossed those distant lakes even to the great Salt 
Sea beyond, but brought back his faithful Wangwana to their own 
homes at Zanzibar, there to reward them with his own hand, and see 
them with his own eyes at rest at last. 
The price paid for this success was great. His white companions 
had all died, and with them in their deaths were no fewer than 170 
natives. The financial cost was enormous. But the aim and end of 
the Anglo-American Expedition had been achieved, the great geo¬ 
graphical problems of the dark continent solved, and’ Stanley had per¬ 
formed the task allotted to him, with a success so brilliant as to make 
him the cynosure of the admiring eyes of two hemispheres. 
