New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-08
THE STORY OF STANLEY.
SCENES IN HIS WONDERFUL CAREER.
HIS GREAT PART IN MAKING THE MAP OF The
DARK CoNTINENT-HOw HE FOUND LlV-
INGsToNE EXPLORED ALL CENTRAL
AFRICA. AND TRACED THE CONGO
To IT'S MOUTH.
TO IT'S MOUTH.

TO ITS MOUTH.
To some people Stanleys extraordinary professions
OF humility and devout thanksgiving to Goa Tor Wo
successful issue of his Incompatible journey through
Africa NAV seem so frequent and fervid as almost 10
convict him Of afectaton. But TO those VINO nave
read the three books. " How Found Llvlhgsohe'
Through the Dark Continent and The Congo in
which the daily journal of all he has suffered anu
achieved I'm Africa Is given out and especially 10
those who know the man. his present condition of mind
is natural and beautiful. Ordinarily, it may DE tha'
self reliant and resourceful are not unwilling 10
appropriate 10 themselves their fun snare Oh gior9 vi
az least much their fellow men are "ilhns uoS
should have and yet the spectacle IS no" Deiom 'he
eyes Of the world of man in whom senieNanoe anu
fertility of resource are combined in degree thst
renders the comparison OF him with any contemporary
quite impossible a man who has just performed q
feat OF exploration Of surprising brllancy' mummy
but vigorously announcing that the credit for his
work Is due as much 10 other men as TO himself anu
breaking forth again and again, into paeahs Oh praise
and thanksgiving to the Deity. Inc Proiou"" 81"
certy Of Stanley is not open 10 question h0 mean,
all he says. He means, almost to the verge Vi
fstalism that he has been tho instrument uP'"
this expedition Of guiding anu uII.'i'7
Providence whose watchful eye and protecting hand
have been him, and he means too' mat III
all that can be called human endcator' SIKH ana
daring his men are worthy of much praise As ne
To describe Stanley's character ard NORA loiNos
fairly is task for which no coldD.Oo'eu meta
physician has the least fitness. for trey aPler'd'"
10 one who sails the Of destiny IN snip "hch vas
built without model under flag that no OMIT md''
head flies. \ Brton by birth, an American DS cary
training. and a rover by nature, there no H'',o"',
standard by which his mind be measured his near
sounded Those qualities, aspirations and ID a. WIN"
proceed from the belief IN freedom equa.y cahdor'
perslstency Justice and bravery ar distinctly trace
able. but with them in weird and curious HA'U" ar
many Others giving to his appearance MS ac'on e,''
his speech pictunsqucness altogether reharh@o'o'
Was this Torn In him. too. developed In the aIso"S'
ST. Asaph brought out by the war, or Is IL due ~
his long solitude in darksome jungeS, or upon me
bosom of great lakes and rivers wherr. surrounde"
with Arabs and negroes cannbas, fatasts and ietch
worshipuers he had none TO commune with or 70 rely
upon but himself and MusuEgu, the SKY spirit luis
f. situation in which such al unconventional herN a.
stanley would naturally compare the sophisty Oh 'he
wise men OF civilization with the sophls'y OF tn'
children Of the forest. and il NAV well be mat M
strange nature 20 powerful placid 50 stern 50
devout, 50 scfassertng, 50 unconscious OF sell 50
tenacious Of purpose. deliberate in forming luds-
ment 50 resentful of wrong. forgving. just gen
erous. proud In action tremendous, IN feposi 50
gentc-saw not less condemn in the one than to adj
mirc I'm the other
Before Stanley entered Africa he had already wan
dered over a large part Of the earths suria'e. lis
parents were Welsh peasants who no sooner got him
than they set about urged by hopeless poverty " EeV
rid Of him. and he grew from babyhood TO boyhood IN
an almshouse When h. was fifteen years od-hc Is
only forty-nine now-he came 10 America. He bore
his parents name and was John Rowland. A. the
cabln-boy Of ship he reached New-Oreans ana ne
clded 10 stop awhile Fortune threw him within the
observation OF a wealthy merchant Of that city, VINO
was charmed with him and adopted him. lie TOOK his
benefactor's name-TIerry Morton stanley Even
then with money ard the delight, Of ndoence-h any
there ara his command. he could not bring himself
to live as ordinary people did but disappeared sud
denly from New-Orloans. went of into the southwest
/ and made himself at home among the Indians what
he learned there has stood him In rich stead since Tor
all savages have traits I'm common. To be more eN'
| act the limitations To their mental processes
are - great that there s not room for much difference
| between them, whether they are Sioux Indians,
/ Nanvems Arabs or Congo man-eaters. After time
he wandered back TO NewOrleans. and soon afterwar
! hts adopfed father died. He had left WILL and
stanley was poor again. The war broke out and he
became an ensign in the Union Navy, but did not
! greatly distinguish himself. Gifted "a writer, he
! sought employment in journalism. and under com
mission from The New-York Herald he told the
| story in its columns Of the Crctan Rebellion, the
Ahysslnan War and the spanish Revolution. lie was
engaged I'm the last enterprise when. in 1860. Mr.
James Gordon Bennett then in Paris. sent for him
and told him 10 20 ard find Livingstone. This was
the sum and substance OF the orler-
90 and find Livingstone" The interview
In witch II was given lasted about Ten minutes
and left Stanley quite amazed. Mr.. Bennett entered
into no details merely giving the young man 10 under
stand that The Herad's7 treasury was at his com
mand 10 any needful extent. but Livingstone was 10
be found
All the worln at this time was troubled about the
fate Of the aged explorer For three years no word
had como from him. He had gone from zanzibar
westward and had either persisted or was now quite
alone somewhere among the tribes OF 'enfrai AFRICA
The sources Of the Nile that deepest of mysteries winch
stanley has only now cleared up were 'ne
object Of his quest. Rumors Of bis death had
come ont filtered Though the Imagination Of countless
tribes and rendered more and more doubTul by 'n'
process Then II was denied then proved 10 Dc
false Still again II came. and after thar inc slehcr
was unbrJken England. 10 the worlds disgust dld
nothing 70 rescue hm-a deplora0le instance o. ia
tOnal ngrauude in view Of what he had dohe d. 'le
price Of 50 much suffering and labor for England II
was the An OF February 1870, when stanley SET our
from Zanzibar intending 10 follow up tho explorer by
whatever route he had made The relief caravan was
a big one divided into five sections and composed OF
100 persons Of whom 80 were carriers Inc SecoI'
in command was a white sailor named tarquhar the
mate Of the vessel in which Stanley mad come 10
Zanzibar The third was also a white man
d Ill tue mama WAS shaw Enough
anu SAILOR hl9 haHo w"
Arab soldiers wer enlisted to p"'ecl me
caravan. which bore supplies hkeN 10 ne
needed by Livingstone and a vast amount Oh cio'n
and beads the currency of interior Africa s'anley
had no very definite idea where he was going except
that. unless for some particular reason ne Snouio
change his mind ne would move due west untn ne
reached the UjiU country on the shores OF LAKE
Tanganyika The distance thus contemplate was Ic''
than 600 miles-not many more than nom new OK
20 Cleveland His troubles began a. soon "a ne gO
on his horse for the influence Of Zanzibar clVlla-
ton did not extend beyond the fringe oil frees tha'
skirted the beach at Bagamoyo. All SORTS
Of animals. from insects 10 alligators' prey'o
upon the party, and every kind Of ANNOYANCE was
visited upon If By the natives, from daring ana open
attack 70 sneak thevery. His progress WAS pa'hiuIN
slow the average distance travelled per Jay peHB
but little than five miles MS cnoro VI "'u
,orsnts u,s utterly unfortunate. Farquhar. who had
- tLn ErsL ..ci.nn had