Stanley's Story; Or, Through the Wilds of Africa: A Thrilling Narrative of His Remarkable Adventures, Terrible Experiences, Wonderful Discoveries and Amazing Achievements in the Dark ContinentFeather, A. G., Col.
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Stanley's Story; Or, Through the Wilds of Africa: A Thrilling Narrative of His Remarkable Adventures, Terrible Experiences, Wonderful Discoveries and Amazing Achievements in the Dark Continent
Feather, A. G., Col.
Africa, Central -- Description and travel; Livingstone, David, 1813-1873; Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904
Mr. Stanley found it much more difficult to get into Africa than to that
singular land. It was understood, according to the best intelligence to
be had that Dr. Livingstone would probably be found, if found at all,
not far from Ujiji. From Bagamoyo, on the mainland of Africa, opposite
the island of Zanzibar, there is a caravan route to Unyanyembe. The
journey generally takes some four months. At the time Mr. Stanley
undertook to proceed inland, he found the country disturbed by wars, and
though starting now and again, he was delayed many weary months on this
account. “Forward and back” was the necessary call of the situation. At
length the country became so far quiet between Bagamoyo and Unyanyembe
that the expedition, which terminated in success, set forth very early
in April, 1871, and, after an unusually rapid journey, the caravan
reached Unyanyembe on the 23d of June. Hence letters were dispatched
home, but from this time for more than a year, the world remained in
ignorance of the fate of the expedition.
Upon the morning of the 2d of July, 1872, however, in the midst of the
great Peace Jubilee at the city of Boston, appeared a cable telegram
from London to the New York “Herald,” announcing the discovery of
Livingstone and the consequent complete success of the great American
journal’s enterprise. This telegram is worthy of preservation, though
superseded by the fuller information in Mr. Stanley’s letters, as an
illustration of newspaper enterprise:
LONDON, JULY 1, 1872.
THE GLORIOUS NEWS.
It is with the deepest emotions of pride and pleasure that I announce
the arrival this day of letters from Mr. Stanley, Chief of the HERALD
Exploring Expedition to Central Africa. I have forwarded the letters
by mail. Knowing, however, the importance of the subject and the
impatience with which
RELIABLE NEWS
is awaited, I hasten to telegraph a summary of the HERALD explorer’s
letters, which are full of the most romantic interest, while
affirming, emphatically,
THE SAFETY OF DR. LIVINGSTONE,
and confirming the meagre reports already sent on here by telegraph
from Bombay and duly forwarded to the HERALD. To bring up the thread
of
THE THRILLING NARRATIVE
where the last communication from him ended he proceeds with his
account of the journey. It will be recalled that when last heard from
he had arrived in the country of Unyanyembe, after a perilous march of
eighty-two days from Bagamoyo, on the coast opposite the island of
Zanzibar. The road up to this point had been in
THE REGULAR CARAVAN TRACK,
and the journey was performed in a much shorter time than the same
distance had been traversed by previous explorers. The expedition
ARRIVED AT UNYANYEMBE
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