Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-05-13
HENRY M. STANLEY.
Noted African Explorer, Whose Life
Reads Like a Work OF Fiction, Died in
London Tuesday.

Sir Henry NJ. Stanley died in London
early Tuesday morning. The Rutland
Herald summarizes his remarkable career
as follows:
The death Of Stanley, the African ex-
plorer removes man whose career
reads like a work of fiction. His boy
hood was spent in "A poor house in
Wales. He started his career as a cab
in boy in a vessel bound for New or
leans, worked in the gold mines of
California, fought on the Confederate
side at the opening of the Civil war. was
taken prisoner and finally entered the
Union army. After the war Stanley be-
came a newspaper correspondent taking
assignments to visit Crete and Asia
Minor, and to accompany the English
expedition against King Theodore of
Abyssinia in 1861 Two years afterward
Stanley was sent into Africa to find Liv-
ngstone. which was the first of the
famous series of African journeys. He
died q member Of Parliament and mis-
monument will bear the name Sir Henry
NJ. Stanley. His real name was John
Rowlands. He was adopted by a south
ern merchant whose name he assumed
Stanley had not been in England two
years after finding Livingstone when he
was commissioned by the New York
Herald and the London Telegraph to visit
Livingstone. At Zanzibar he learned Of
the death of the latter. But Stanley
lN of the 300 members of his company
before reaching the lake but there he
made most important discoveries. He
found il much greater than had been sup
posed fixing its area at 10000 square
miles and its coast line at 1000 miles.
While engaged in this work he discov-
cred the Shimeeyu river. Going on he
found that the Albert Nyanza to the west
is not connected with Lake Tanganyika
to the southwest. as had been supposed.
Then, to omit many discoveries, he ex-
plored Lake Tanganyika and then at
tackled the problem of the Qualoba river.
He followed the river for eight months
and came out OF the Congo on the west
coast. thus completing one of the most
daring journeys of discovery ever made.
Much Of the journey was through hostile
country, and he lost 25 men by disease or
in fights with the natives while descend
ing the river. He reached the coast in
August. 1871. a little less than three years
from the time he entered the country
from the east. arrived in England in
February. 1873. and published his book,
Across the Dark Continent" the same
year. Among other honors this eXpedi-
tion brought him from France the Cross
iof the Legion of Honor
The account of the Congo country in
spired King Leopold of Belgium to un-
dertake the commercial development of
the region. and with his countenance the
International African association was
formed and Stanley was appointed to
carry out the project. He returned to
the mouth of the Congo in 1879, built a
road around the rapids so as to establish
easy communication with Stanley Pool,
something like 200 miles up the river. then
! had steamers carried up in parts and
| placed on the river. and so by degrees
established a chain of trading posts eX-
| tending li00 miles from the pool to Stan
| ley Falls He was for four years at the
| head Of the Belgian enterprise, from
which the Congo Free State developed.
| He declined the governorship Of the
| Free State Then in 1883 he returned to
| England and published his book, THE
Congo. and the Founding of the Free
| State"
About two years passed, and then ir
! 1856 ne entered on the terrible expedition
for the relief OF Emin Pasha. After the
| Soudan was abandoned he continued tc
act as Egyptian governor of the equa'
torlal province.
Stanley was a man Of sound Judgment
great determination and boundless cour'
age Like Cecil Rhodes. he had grea
visions for Africa, but he did not remair
there until stricken down with disease
For the past decade Stanley had LIVED
the easy life of a distinguished gentle
| man.