The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-02-25
A SPEECH BY H. M. STANLEY.

On December 18th q lunch was given
on board the R. NJ. S. Arawatta at Fan
zibar, at which Henry NJ. Stanley was
present. His health was drunk and he
made the following reply: They could
imagine the dark and distant interior
from which he and his party had just
come, beggared and bankrupt in strength
and all those things which belong to civil
ization; and although so long silent, yet
they have been heart and soul in SYM
pathy with all and although he was I'M
able to respond in the way he would
wish to the words just uttered, and with
the richly eloquent reply they deserved,
still he hoped they would give him credit
for deep and sincere reciprocal feeling
of thankfulness, and that they would
understand his depth of feeling and full
ness OF heart. As he called to mind the
labors of the last twenty years in connec-
ton with the clark continent" he was
struck with the remarkable changes that
had taken place. Twenty years ago he
was in Zanzibar, and had made trip
into the interior, after which he visited
England. The people there scarcely
knew where Zanzibar was, whether it
was an island or portion of the MAIN
land, whether it was IN the Indian Ocean
or in the Atlantic. The little library he
had taken with him into the interior in
1871, was of such character that he
would rather take dose of quinine to-
day than read a single paragraph of one
of those nauseous chapters which only
spoke OF cannibals, land OF dismal swamps
breeding the germs OF death. They had
gone into these dark regions and come
out again seven times. They had en-
couraged others to do the same, and so
the belief was gradually spreading
abroad that something good might pos
sibly come out of Africa after all. As in
the olden days unbelievers had asked,
"Can anything good come out of Naz-
areth ?" SO people now were asking "Can
anything good come out of African" a
question he had often brought before
English audiences. The Britons who
nourished the fond belief that the coun-
tries comprising Great Britain were the
finest in the world, and its people the
bravest and most eloquent in the world,
could better understand what reply they
would have given to the querists of
olden times. They could sympathise
with him when he replied concerning
Africa, $50 and see." Their expert
ences were not as yet written down, but
they hoped soon to convey to the world
Africa. In the meantime they had with
them in Zanzibar those young gentle
men he had brought back with him
from the far interior, and who could UNI
fold some of the secrets of inner Africa.
They had indeed been enabled to see
strange things-they could tell of gloomy
forests through which they had per-
formed march of 160 days without a
glimpse of sunshine-they could tell OF
many months of hardship when there
were no such luxuries as those then be-
fore them; but with the proverbial i'm
plicit faith Englishmen had in them
selves, they had believed that some day
they would be enabled to gather round
such tables and on board such fine
steamer as they had there. Those
young gentlemen were his living wit
nesses, and would doubtless be quite
to encourage all in the belief
that something good could come out OF
Africa, and that of all people in the
world the English were best adapted to
go away into the interior of Africa with
not unlikely chances of success. They
would be able to tell them of the terror
likely to be inspired by the dismal writ
lngs of their small library, but that there
we're two sides to every questionable
bright as well as the dark. Just as they
should think of the elements of virtue
and good to be brought forth in man,
so should they regard Africa. He did
not know how'long it might be before
Europeans would venture into those re-
gions of rank forest from which they had
Just emerged-it was hard to predict.
They had gone through a ten days |
march of gloom, and had enjoyed the
realization of how beautiful the sun
shine was-the open countryside green
grass waving in the breeze-they had |
realized how exquisitely beautiful and
beyond all description were the snow
capped mountains, ranged in rank be-
yond rank under the Equator of Africa.
they had had very bitter ex-
Deriences in the many wildernesses they |
lad crossed, and yet they had met with |
many beauties both in the scenery and
n the characters OF the people compos-
ng the tribes of Africa. 1t was hard to |
'ay whether any European would realize |
hem again. He hoped, however. that
he wheel set going was the wheel OF
Progress, and it would roll on, without |
stopping, to the far interior, until the
Instant regions were united in one bond
If fellowship with civilization. He
would drink to the toast of Africa.