The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1904-05-13
DEATH0F EXPLORER STANLEY
HE DIED IN LONDON FROM AN
ATTACK OF PLEURISY

HE DIED IN LONDON FROM AN
ATTACK OF PLEURIsY
He Was the First to go up.the Congo
River In Africa-He Went. AftersLiv-
ingston and Found Him-Also Res
cued Emin Pasha- Esta bIished the
| Free state-Author of Many Books.
London, May 10. = Sir Henry M.
Stanley, the famous African explorer,
is dead from an attack Of pleurisy.
Probably no man in recent years has
been more worthy of the title, ''self
made man, than Henry Morton Stan
ley, who rose from the poor house to
palace entirely through his strength of
character and determination to be
man of mark. He was born in Dem
bigh, Wales, and was placed in the
poorhouse at the age of 3. He remained
there 10 years, until he had acquired
an education; sailed as cabin boy on
ship to New Orleans when he was E15,
and was adopted by a merchant there,
whose family name of Stanley he as
sumed instead of his on of John Ro W.
lands. Stanley enlisted in the confed-
crate army as a youth, was captured
and enlisted in the federal navy. He
went to Turkey at the close of the war
as newspaper correspondent. and lat
er accompanied the British army
through the Abyssnian wars as the cor
respondent of the New York Herald.
i It was while Stanley was in Europe
that he was commissioned by James
Gordon Bennett to find Livingstone,
who was in Africa, and from whom no
word had been received for several
years. He started in 1870 and pene-
trated the interior from the east coast.
After journey marked by great toll and
hardship he found the missing explorer
but could not induce him to rturn with
him. Many doubted Stanley's story
when he arrived nj England, but it was
soon verified when the news of Living
ston's death was brought from Central
Africa.
In 1874 Stanley Eagain started upon
: a trip of exploration under the auspices
OF the New York Herald and the Lon.
| don Telegraph. This was his most ia.
nous trip and resulted in the most i'm
| portant additions to the worlds know.
ledge of the interior of the dark cont.
= nent. Two white men accompanied
5 him, and he explored Lake Victo1ia
, Nyanza, discovered Albert Edward
, Nyanza, traversed Lake Tanganyika
and at last reached the banks of large
, liver flowing north.
| after some hesitations as to what course
: to persue, he finally determined to as
: cend the unknown stream, believing al
Q he did that it was the Congo. Such il
proved to be, for, after long ant
thrilling journey of many months
through hostile natives, many of whom
$ W ere canibals, past falls and through
. districts where it was impossible to OBJ
Y tain food, his weakened expedition
at last reached the Atlantic coast, m in
E us the two white companions who hat
= started out with the explorer.
= Two years after this memorable tri1
: Stanley returned to the Congo for the
q king of the Belgians, and the result OF
t his three years work was the foundine
|. of the Cnogo Free State.
e He then decided to abandon furthe,
explorations in the country with which
/ his name had been so closely connected
j. but upon the urging of those who de-
t sired the relief of Emin Pasha, hem
t med in on the upper Nile as the result,
of the rebellion of the tribes in the
? Soudan, he undertook to lead an expe
D dltion up the Congo and across the cor
tinent. This most trying journey
which resulted in much scandal anG
discussion, he graphically described
I'm Darkest Africa
E In 1895 Mr.. Stanley, who had beer
knlghted, was elected to parliament al
. liberal unionist for North Lambeth
but he rarely participated in the de-
bates. He was married in 1890 te
. Dorothy Tenant, one of the bright
women Of English society.
u Nearly 10 yeras of Stanley's life was
4 passed in the most exhausting labo,
under the equator, but although hi
suffered repeatedly from African fevers
he regained strong health upon his re-
turn to the temperate zone and wrote
many intensely interesting volumes OF
his journey through African wilds.
The books describing his most impor.
tant journeys are: "How 1 found Liv.
, ingtson," Through the Dark Cont.
nent, " The Congo and the Founding
of Its Free State" and In Darkest AT.
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