Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-03-05
FoUR GREAT EXPLORERS.

There are three great travellers whom the
Editor of the Magazine knows well, and
whom at various times he has specially in
troduced to its readers. The scenes of
their explorations lie far apart, all of them
being iu regions heretofore almost unknown
No three men can be found differing more
widely in personal appearance. Mr. Charles
F. Hall, to whom it has been reserved b,
bis own individual labor to clear up the
mystery Of the fate Of Sir John Franklin
aud his associstes-a task which has been
vainly attempted by expeditions fitted ou
by The Government Of Great Britain and
the United States born, we think, certain
reared, in the Great Vests a man OF
large frame, with light hair. blue eyes, anc
flowing beard, very Viking in aspect,
rather slow of speech--a man whom upor
first introduction one would be apt to SCI
down as the most difhdent person he even
met M John Ross Browne, now
American Minister to China, born in ireland
but from hoyh0od an American, Is rathe
abUre middle height, spare of figure, with
.cauty dark hair broad forehead, and the
general air Of a scholar rather than of an ex-
2lorer. NJ Du Chaillu-our Friend
Paul though born in America, OF
French descent, and educated in France;
and while be writes our language with per
feet facility, and speaks it with hueney, it j.
1 with q marked Partisan iutonation He j.
hardly FIVE feet four in stature, and slight IN
/ form; we doubt if he weighs a hundrea
pounds His closely cropped hair is
/ blaol as a raven wing; and were it not for
/ the flashing of most brilliant black eye, h.
/ is about the last man whom one woule
dream Of being the most daring traveller ot
our dav. To those three We add the name
I of another whom we only know from hi,
/ books, but who yet always seems to us Ike
a personal friend; David Livingstone,
/ Scotch BY birth, but African by lona
residence and wide travel. A spare, wiry
man of middle stature-we judge from hi
portrait-wiih strongly marked and rather
rugged features, by no means nota5lr
looking parsonage.
But these three men whom we know
possess one characteristiein common They
are loga5is men. Chldren-thOse iu-
stiBctive Judges of human nature-take tc
them at once. Let either of them be seated
at your freside, and in half an hour-you
can not tell how-all your young people
will be clambering around them. So, too,
/ wi,h uncivilized men, who are but biz
children, and quite often very bad ones.
They take to these men. Livingstone ais,
clearly belongs to this class There is hardly
! in all story any thing more touching thar
the perfect faith with which the wild Mako
lolo followed Livingstone across the whoh
breadth Of Africa, and for weary yea
awaited his return from England to leac
them back from the sea to their inlanc
homes. If a man LACKS this personal mag
netism, no matter what else he may have
he will not be one of those great traveller
whose books men, women, and childrcr
love to read. There is nothing more notabl
/ in the narratives Of these travellers than tn
perfect devotion which these wild attend
ants bear to their civilized companions |
is the story. over which so many tears hav
been she'd, of Robinson Crusoe and his maj
Fridly.-A. H. Guernsey, IN Harper
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