The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-18
THE STANLEY BANQUET.
Mr.. Stanley Tells His Own Story
Of His Herald Mission
Into Africa.
THE FINDING OF LIVINGSTONE
Just Tribute to the Correspondent and
Hearty Recognition of the
Herald Enterprise.

.n m PARIS. August I, 1872
Henry NJ Stanley, correspondent OF the NEW
YORK HERALD Is to-day the lion Of the great city OF
Paris. Fresh from the jungles and swamps and
marshes OF Central Africa that strange and mystic
rious country, as full of danger and wild and anc
ful romance as any tabled land of antiquity; fresh
from combats with its savage inhabitants, its lions
and tigers, and its equally savage human beasts;
but, above all, fresh from the society OF the far
famed Dr. Livingstone, so oft reported dead, SO oft
resuscitated, and killed over again; bringing news
from him, messages from him. letters
written by his own hand-he is sought
for, honored, feted, talked about in
way that will turn his head If he has a head capa-
BILE Of being turned 1t is easy thing to get the
London and Paris worlds talking about you for
days. but that is what Stanley has accomplished,
much to his own surprise, too, apparently. He has
been In Paris now about week, and during the
whole Of that time he has had scarcely moments
rest All sorts of people call and ask be presented
to him. He Is overwhelmed with invitations, 1.-THE
Of which he would not be able to accept were he to
remain here year. He Is interrupted by news
paper reporters importuned by correspondents
OF the pictorials for sketches and scenes
nom his travels, and generally lionized
to an extent that has astonished him
beyond measure. For the poor man did not know
he had done anything so extraordinary until he got
out of the wlds Of Africa and found that the whole
civilized world was ringing with his exploits.
THE FRENCH PAPERS
are full Of gossip concerning him; and, as usual,
when talking about anything anybody not of their
own country make all sorts of funny and amusing
mistakes.
The Sotr, for instance, announced the arrival OF
the discoverer of Dr. Livingstone in Paris as Lord
Stanley, son of the great Lord Derby, who, at the
instigation Of the NEW YORK HERALD, "notye
corVfere Jdneur," molly undertook to find
the great traveller, ana, finally, after
unheard-of difficulties succeeded, to which were
added many details and particulars of an equally
reliable and astonishing nature. The Figaro came
out next day and declared the whole thing to be
canard Of the most stupendous proportions. 1t
declared that Lord Stanley being the son of the
late Lord Derby, now deceased had succeeded to
his fathers name and title that consequently there
was no Lord Stanley, and therefore the whole story
as well as the report Of the discovery Of DR.. Liv-
ingst0ne was an immense hoax. The Figaro has
itself mentioned so many canards that its faith in
the capacity Of other papers to manufacture SEN
satOnal news Is unbOunded, and its creduty was
therefore wofully imposed on, as IL soon found out
The next day the Gaulots and the RepuoliQ,le
Troncatse came out in long articles, poked fun at
the Figaro and the Sofr, showed up their absurd
mistakes, made some of their own almost as bad,
and gave, respectively, glowing account Of the
expedition, In which the courage and energy of
Mr.. Stanley and the enterprise Of Mr.. James Cor
don Bennett, nOtre iUustrieur corlJrere, were ex-
tolled to the skies.
sTANLEY's MARCH TO UJIJI.
Stanley suddenly finds himself great man; nor
the carpng criticism OF the London Spectator that
hopes no great good from the expedition; nor the
absurd doubts Of the Standard will prevent all
honor being accorded him or detract one iota
from his need OF glory. And Stanley merits it
all That march OF o thousand miles through
the jungles and swamps and marshes of Southern
Africa, over mountains that had never yet been
scaled by any white man who had ever come back
to tell the tale through forests dense and dark and
dank with the heavy vegetation OF tropical cline;
Inhabited only by savages, wild beasts venomous
insects and monster serpents, and the still more
ferocious cannibal negro; crossing rivers whose
swift-rushing currents made it almost impossible
to pass them; wading for hours for miles and miles
through swamps and marshes, rank with their dark,
Shiny vegetation waist deep with the green, filthy,
stagnant sinking water that poisoned the very
air. Again. across arid, thirsty, burning plains and
deserts, right under the equator, where the sun
pours down his burning rays, whitening up every
living thing with his fiery eye; making his own
roads, finding his own provisions, fighting his own
battles; now making war with his little army
against some hostile chief who refuses to let him
pass now employing all the arts and seductlons Of
An old and experienced diplomat to accomplish his
purpose; again quelling mutiny among his own
men; fording rivers, scaling mountains, passing
denles threading narrow forest paths dark with
She luxurious vegetation and beset with danger at
every step; but, worst of ALL struggling in the con-
finua, unceasing grasp Of an enemy more deadly
ehan the coils OF the Shiny boa constructor, more
rutniess than the fangs OF the African tiger, more
fatai tnan the poisoned shafts of the canni-
bal negroes-an enemy that racks the bones and
DRIES up the blood and crazcs the brain with his
merry breath, ana reduces In few hours a hale
hearty man to mere "ruckle of bones'-the te ri.
BILE swamp fever of Central Africa. This malaria
this miasm of the marshes, is something dreadful.
It rises from the putrd sinking, filthy water rife
with the seeds of death, and hangs over the conn.
try In the form OF Dense but invisible fou thick.
cning and poisoning the atmosphere like the
plague and rendering life impossible to any but the
strongest animal organization. One can under
stand the success OF such an expedition when I'M
dertaken in q country where this enemy has not to
be met With good health sound body and
clear head insured to him, anybody might carry 1t
20 successful conclusion. But far different is 1t
when laborng under the continual attacks OF this
insdiOus enemy. with the frame reduced to mere
skeleton the blood boiling with fever the brain In
whir, delirium with all Its horrors ever threat
ening and to preserve through 1t all sufficient en-
ergy to command lao wild negroes and Arabs, to
keep them In subsection, to crush every attempt at
mutiny to keep on the march through days and
weeks and months OF sickness and fatgue-then is
o.lorfu RI ~ ho afn Av,I