In 1873, just as Dr. Schweinfurth’s book was being published, Henry Moreton Stanley, an Americanised Welshman, had returned to London from the discovery and relief of Dr. Livingstone. Soon after his return arrived the news of Livingstone’s death. The sorrow over this loss, and enthusiasm at the half-finished discoveries on the great mysterious river which Livingstone believed to be the Nile and everyone else the Congo, caused the “Daily Telegraph” and the “New York Herald” to unite in furnishing funds for a great expedition which should attempt to clear up many African problems. This expedition Stanley (who therefrom rose to be the greatest of African explorers) commanded. Starting from the coast opposite Zanzibar, whence so many expeditions had set forth since Maizen[89] and Burton had made the first attempts, Stanley travelled by the Unyamwezi route to the Victoria Nyanza, the south shore of which he reached at the end of February, 1875. On the 8th of March in that year Stanley (having put together a boat which he brought in sections, and which he named the _Lady Alice_) started--accompanied by eleven of his men--on a most adventurous voyage along the eastern and northern shores of the lake. He coasted and named the important southeastern arm of the Victoria Nyanza, which is known as Speke Gulf. Passing rather hurriedly along the northeast coast of the lake, he made one great blunder, in that he overlooked the very narrow entrance to Kavirondo Bay (which is almost a separate lake), and created instead a broad northern gulf which he called Ugowe Bay. Ugowe Bay actually is the native name of quite a small shallow inlet on the Uyoma coast. Stanley skirted at some distance the much indented shores of Busoga, passed through what is now known as Rosebery Channel, and so on up Murchison Gulf to the native capital of Uganda, then called Rubaga (now known as Mengo). Here he had a splendid reception from Mutesa, and here he met Édouard Linant de Bellefonds,[90] a Belgian in the Egyptian government, who had been sent by Gordon Pasha to report on the state of affairs in Uganda.