H. M. STANLEY.
Rather more than three years ago on the 16th of October 1869 Mr. Henry M. Stanley, travelling correspondent of the 'New York Herald,' being then in Madrid, received a telegram from the proprietor of that journal calling him to Paris. The message from Mr. James Gordon Bennett was to this effect: 'Come to Paris on important business.' The nature of this business was communicated to Mr. Stanley in the following conversation, quoted from the introductory chapter of his book:
Mr. Bennett asked :
'Where do you think Livingstone is ?'
'I really do not know, sir.'
'Do you think he is alive ?'
'He may be, and he may not be,' I answered.
'Well, I think he is alive, and that he can be found ; and I am going
to send you to find him.'
Mr. Bennett goes on to say :
'Of course you will act according to your own plans, and do what you
think best. But find Livingstone.'
More easily said than done. But to the great honour of the young correspondent of the New York paper, it will ever be set down, in the pages of the history of gallant adventure, that he successfully accomplished the difficult task of finding Dr. Livingstone in Central Africa. This came to pass two years after Mr. Stanley received his instructions from Mr. Bennett. On Friday the 10th of November 1871, at the village of Ujiji, the young explorer shook the famous missionary by the hand. When he saw Livingstone advancing to meet him, he was overpowered with joy at the welcome sight of the object of his long search. 'What would I not have given,' he says, 'for a bit of friendly wilderness where, unseen, I might vent my joy
