The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-02-20
A SPEECH BY H. NJ. STANLEY.

On December l1th lunch was given |
on board the r. VI. ;. 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
patty 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 d TRIP
into the interior, after which he visited
England The people there scarcely
htltW "iitIc <<dliLiDdt Nd7i "itSIiiCi ~
was an island or a 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 a character that he
would rather take a dose of quinine to-
day than read single paragraph of one
of those nauseous chapters which only
spoke OF cannibals, land OF dismal swamps
I,oal1,,, hn ~ Iaath ThAU In a IL
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 Africa?" 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 querlsts oil
| olden times. They could sympathlse
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
an account of what they had seen in
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 I'M
| fold some of the secrets OF inner Africa
They had indeed been enabled to SET
fafsssss tthftfpodstRWeX enuld tel ri so9mA
formed march OF 100 days without 9
| glimpse of sunshine-they could tell o
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 rounC
such tables and on board such "a fine
steamer as they had there Those
young gentlemen were his living wit
nesses, and would doubtless be quite
prepared to encourage all in the belle
that something good could come out o
Africa, and that OF all people in the
world the English were best adapted t.
90 away into the interior of Africa will
not unlikely chances of success. The,
would be able to tell them of the terro
likely to be inspired by the dismal writ
ings of their small library, but that Their,
were two sides to every question-th'
bright as we'll as the dark. Just as the,
should think of the elements of virtue
and good to be brought forth in a man
so should they regard Africa. He die
not know how long it might be before
Europeans would venture into those re
gions of rank forest from which they ha,
just emerged-it was hard to predict
They had gone through a ten day
march of gloom, and had enjoyed th'
realization of how beautiful the sun
shine was--the open Countrywide greer
grass waving in the breeZe-they has
realized how exquisitely beautiful anC
beyond all description were the snow
capped mountains, ranged in rank be
yond rank under the Equator of Africa
Sometimes they had had very bitter ex
periences in the many wildernesses they
had crossed, and yet they had met with
many beauties both in the scenery anC
in the characters of the people compos.
ing the tribes of Africa. 1t was hard tc
say whether any European would realize
them again. He hoped, however. thai
| the wheel set going was the wheel O
Progress, and it would roll on, without
stopping, to the far interior, until the
| distant regions were united in one bond
of fellowship with civilization. He
would drink to the toast OF Africa.
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