------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Footnotes have been moved to follow the paragraphs in which they are referenced. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT. [Illustration: _After Walery._] _Frontispiece._ H. M. STANLEY. ] THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT OR THE SOURCES OF THE NILE AROUND THE GREAT LAKES OF EQUATORIAL AFRICA AND DOWN THE LIVINGSTONE RIVER TO THE ATLANTIC OCEAN BY HENRY M. STANLEY AUTHOR OF “IN DARKEST AFRICA,” “HOW I FOUND LIVINGSTONE,” “MY KALULU,” ETC. MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR, WRITTEN FOR THIS EDITION. VOL. I. LONDON: GEORGE NEWNES, LIMITED SOUTHAMPTON STREET, STRAND 1899 _RE-ISSUE BY ARRANGEMENT WITH MESSRS. SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON AND COMPANY, LTD._ =Dedication.= ------- THE HEARTY ENCOURAGEMENT AND LIBERAL MEANS WHICH ENABLED ME TO PERFORM THE MISSION ENTRUSTED TO ME, OF EXPLORING THE DARK CONTINENT OF AFRICA AND SOLVING MANY INTERESTING GEOGRAPHICAL PROBLEMS, AND TO FITTINGLY REWARD THE FAITHFUL SURVIVORS, INDUCE ME TO MAKE PUBLIC MY DEEP PERSONAL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, BY DEDICATING THIS WORK, WHICH RECORDS ITS RESULTS, TO THE PROMOTERS OF THE ENTERPRISE, MR. J. M. LEVY AND Mr. EDWARD L. LAWSON, _Proprietors of the ‘Daily Telegraph,’_ AND MR. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, _Proprietor of the ‘New York Herald,’_ AND IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE GREAT AND CONSTANT INTEREST MANIFESTED BY HIM IN THE SUCCESS OF THE UNDERTAKING, I MUST BE PERMITTED TO ADD THE NAME OF MR. EDWIN ARNOLD, C.S.I., AND F.R.G.S. WITHOUT THE PATRONAGE, FULL CONFIDENCE, AND CORDIAL SYMPATHY OF THESE GENTLEMEN I SHOULD HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO ACCOMPLISH THE TASK NOW HAPPILY COMPLETED.