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HOW DIR. LIVINGSTONE WAS
FOUND.
Statement From One orsianIey's
African Guides.

Selim Hershmah, the young Arab
sheik who acted as guide for Stanley
during the latter's African explora.
tions and search for DR. Livingstone,
has been found in Boston by a repre-
sentative of the Boston Herald. Sc
lin says no horses or mules we're used
during the journey, and the natives
we're not able to keep up with Stan
ley's pace, whose powers Of endurance
and fasting were phenomenal. Stan
ley had to pay tribute to the tribes
through whose possessions he passed,
and refusing to give q few yards of
calico to King Amdazo a battle ensued
in which fifty of SANKEY'S followers
were killed. Stanley afterward be-
came sick, disheartened, and fire.
quently remarked that Livingstone
must be dead anyway and spoke of
abandoning the search. Selim thus
tells the story of the discovery Of Liv-
ingstone:
Zone day l started out towards the
west, and after several days tramp,
fell in with Abdullah Ben Sulelman,
an Arab, who told me he had heard
that Livingstone was somewhere
north, but close to Lake Tanganyika.
| pushed ahead, and two months later,
with Abdul Ben Hamels, another
Arab, met DR.. Livingstone, face to
face, near the lake. The Doctor
looked worn out and very old, and in
conversation he asked how | hap
pened in the country. | told him;
but upon my telling him that Stanley,
an American, was searching for
him, he frowned. He seemed to feel
that it would have been better if an
Englishman had come after him, and
was quite displeased that it was an
American. found that the Doctor
would be in Ujiji in few months and
| fastened back to Stanley, who was
more discouraged than ever. He
would not believe had seen and
talked with Liviugtone, and even then
spoke of turning back. After much
persuasion the expedition started out
and in due time, after many obstacles
and dangers, reached Ujiji, upon en-
tering which place we were met by
DR.. Livingstone's native servants
The Doctor afterwards, with several
Arabs, came forward, and | soon
pointed him out to Stanley, who even
then seemed to doubt me Both looked
for nearly half an hour at
one another before either spoke
Stanley has not told the truth relative
to the toast drank between Living
stone at the latter's hut. 1t was the
last bottle of champagne Stanley had
and l brought it out. Stanley offered
the toast, Here's to England and
America l interrupted with, and
Arabia Stanley and Livingstone
looked at one another, clinked glasses
and drank the toast, 10 England
America and Arabia This is the
truth, and | felt satisfied, as | thought
that Arabia had done as much to find
Livingstone as Stanley did"
In regard to Stanley's present expe'
dition to Africa, Selim says that he
received letter from Stanley asking
him to go'as a guide. He refused, fol-
the reason that he had got enough Of
Africa. Selim says that the present
expedition is private, and that, al
though it is ostensibly under the
patronage of Belgium, yet England
has lurking interest in its results,
There is no doubt but that Stanley's
life hope is to fix the source of the
Nile, but the chances are against his
success. He is a man who never
made friends with the natives, and on
his former trip his followers conspired
to kill him, but were dissuaded. | do
not believe he will survive his present
expedition"