The morning call., 1891-03-13
STANLEY'S STORY.
Experiences of Twenty-three
Years in Africa.
A Representative Audience-The Finding o.
Livingstone - Wanted to Be
Christian-0n the Congo.

three Years Life as an Explorer in Central
Africa" The audi forum was completely
packed, from orchestra to gallery, and in
addition to this seats had been arranged upon
the stage, which were occupied by large
number of prominent people, including the
Mayor and city officials. Admiral George
Brown and party of naval officers occupied
the box to the left of the stage, and were
attentive listeners throughout.
At few minutes after o'clock, Mrs.
Stanley appeared in the box to the right of
the stage, dressed in a black evening dress.
In a moment every glass in the house was
turned upon her. She was accompanied by
her mother and Lieutenant Jephson.
A moment later Stanley, escorted by
Mayor Sanderson, appeared upon the stage,
and was greeted with applause.
When quiet was restored the Mayor ad-
vanced, and in few words introduced the
greatest of all African explorers"
sTANLEY's APPEARANCE.
When the applause had suhsded which
greeted the mention of Stanley'S name, the
latter arose, and launched at once upon his
theme He sad, in substance: Il have
come to the metropolis of the western shores
OF America to tell you what we have been
doing in Africa. After the close of the
Civil War l was engaged as special cor
respondent, and accompanied General Han
cock and General Sherman among the lndi-
ans Of Kansas and Nebraska. l was then
ordered to Abyssinia. and had the good for
tune to send my dispatches eight days in
advance of the British authorities. From
AbySslnia | was ordered to Crete. From
there | went to Spain, and remained there
until peremptory telegram called me- TO
Paris Arriving i'll the French capital at
night | FASTENED to the Grand Hotel and
knocked at certain door. When told TO
enter, | did so, and found James Gordon
Bennett in bed. Propping himself up with
pillow he gave me the most remarkable
list of assignments ever given to young
journalist. | was to go to the opening OF
the SueZ Canal, then l was to ascend the
Nile and describe the places Of interest.
Then | was to visit Jerusalem and write up
the excavations, proceeding thence to the
Crimea, TO tell how Sebhstopoi looked after
Il calm of sixteen years. From there was
10 go to the Caucasus, gallop across Persia,
and then go TO some unknown part OF Africa
and lind Livingstone
"You can imagine how my eyes dilated ana
how my heart bounded, as with m0desty OF
youth asked Mr.. Bennett if there was any
thing else when that was done, and he dIyly
replied that | could 90 to China, and return
home by the way of japan and San Fran
cisco.
HIS SETTING OUT.
"In January, 1871, l found myself in Fan
Ibar. The Herald agent i'll London had
forgotten the matter and no letter of credit
awaited me. Ny orders were to find Liy-
ingstone, and l knew that where there's
will there's way. There were no orders
for my recall, so l then went to the Ameri-
can Consul, and secured SOC with his
aid, by paying $1,000 for the use of it. With
this l got together some sailors and 1856
Zanzi baris, but | had a Sneaking wish Tor
orders of recall. | kept on, however, and
in the latter part of March the first caravans
had gone on ahead and | soon followed.
The pack animals, which were donkeys,
persisted by skies.
Arriving at last at the first port many
attendants deserted me. To add to my
trouble, was told that | would have to as
sist in cOnquering Miranda, chief'atn.
out TO meet him, were defeated, with the
loss of 600 men, and l came near losing my
life.
1--WE frally reached Ujiji, and when we
came in view of the iowa our men fired
salute. Among those who came 10 meet
us Were two black men, who said; Good
morning, SAIL
ain my surprise I asked, who are you?'
"'Why, we are servants of Dr. Living
stone
HE MEETS LIVINGSTONE.
"A few minutes later ] grasped the latter
ingStoDe, [ presume?
1.-The doctor told me of a river which he
had seen but a few days before, and that he
was unable TO determine whether ii was the
Nile or the Congo. We then organized an
expedition TO the north of Lake Tanganyika
TO ascertain whether the river flowed IN or
| out of the lake. We found it to be the lat
! ter. / then endeavored to induce the old
| man to accompany me to the coast, but lie
| declined, and died fourteen months later.
N ia moan time had returned tp ENGLAND.
Later | happened TO call on Sir Edwin
| Arnold, editor of the London Telegraph,
who asked if / would return to Africa.
replied that with the permission of Mr..
| Bennett of the Herald ! would. This was
obtained, and | started My mission was to
! solve the following questions relative TO
| African geography: First Was Victoria
| NyanZa one lake or cluster? Second, How
| far north did the illimitable lake of Colonel
Baker extend? Third, To what river did
this sweet-wateI lake flow? and fourth,
| What was the river IN the west which Liv-
| ingstone would not abandon and which cost
| him his life?
SIN October. 1874, we left Zlnzibar and
| in 1903 days reached Victoria Nyanza. A
| beautiful boat Of cedar was carried by us
III sections, and this we launched, but the
| Zanzbaris grew frightened, aud | had to
resort to some strong eloquence to induce
| them to 60 on.
Mr.. Stanley then detailed the events oil
| escape from herd of hippOpotami, and
| other thrilling adventures OF similar
| nature.
| POWERFUL MONARCH
I'VE finally reached 0ganda," he contin-
| ued, where we found a King who could
muster 100000 warriors. just previous to
our arrival the Kings mother had had a
| dream, of boat line, a white-winged bird.
| with sad-faced white man in the stern.
When we arrived the Kings mother
pointed me out as the pale.faced white man
of her dream, and babe the King to be
| gracious to me, which request the latter
complied with. The King wanted to be-
come Christian, and | told him as best
could the story of Christianity. | sent the
account of this to England, where it was
published, and the Telegraph that day
issued 29S,00U copies, aud before night
| S65000 had been subscribed for the first
| African mission. Fifty-seyen days after we
| returned to our camp, and found that the
lake occupied 2l,6Oo square miles. Thus
| was the first problem solved.
We then crossed Uganda, and in east
longitude 800 discovered Lake Beatrice
| We struck south and in 1876 reached Tan
ganyiki again. Two months later we dis
covered that the lake had no outlet.
ON THE CONGO.
elm November, 1876, we arrived at
| NyanZa, about the center of Equatorial
| Africa. To the west of this was an I'M
known and UNEMPLOYED wilderness. We
found. however, stream three-quaTters Of
a mile in width, and dscharging 240, 600 cubic
| feet Of water second. We were unceI-
tain whether it was the Nile or the Niger,
| and were tempted to turn back. Duty
urged us forward at last and we plunged
| into the forest. For weeks we passed
through this weird shadow land, and then
secured fotilla Of canoes in which we
| fioated down the stream. At last we learned
| from the natives that we were on the Congo.
About $50 miles from the Equator it swerved
west Here it was sixteen miles in width.
| Finally, after travelling 1000 miles, during a
| period OF lust 999 days, we reached the
Atlantic Ocean,"
In closing his lecture Mr.. Stanley referred
to the work now going on in Africa, and
stated that in a future lecture he would re-
late the chief details of the Emin Pasha
| relief expedition.