The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-09-17
sTANtEY'S GREAT EXPLOIT.
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Although the fame Of Sir Haprv Hs
stanley, who died in London on Nav
aVIn' VIII rest on his exploration of
the upper Congo and OF equatorial Az.
Yea it - his search for David Living
stOne through the African 1ungles and
nus hnding of the missing missionary
az 0Jgi on the shore of Tanganuilya.
tnat appeals most to the dramatic feel.
ing OF the world. In "Eccentricities Of
Genius" Major ]. B. Pond quotes a
WElrty reference to this achievement.
winch was made by Mark Twain in in.
producing Mr.. Stanley to a Boston au-
dience. 49,. :
! am not here to disparage Column
pus' said Mr.. Clemens. mo, / won't
90 that, But when you come to re-.
gard the achievements of these two
men, Columbus and Stanley, from the
standpoint of the difficulties they en-
coantered, the advantage is with Stan.
ley and against Columbus. ..... .. ....~...
Columbus started out to discover
America. He didn't need to do any,
Chlng at all but sit in the cabin of his
snip, hold his grip and sail straight
on, and America would discover itself.
Here 1t was, barring his passage the
whole length and breadth of two con.
tnents. He couldn't get past it. He'd
got to discover it.
But Stanley started out to find Doc.
tor Livingstone, who was scattered
scattered abroad, as you may say, over
the length and breadth of vast slab
OF Africa as big as the United Staes
1t was a blind search for one of the
worst scattered Of men,"
In October, 1870, Stanley started out
from Bombay on his search for Doctor
Livingstone on behalf of two newspa
pers. The great missionary and geog
rapher, on the last sad trip of his life
had plunged into the heart of Africa
from the east coast in the spring Of
1866. For five years he had beer
fighting for his life against the raw
ages Of fever and disease, contendins
vainly against his old foes, the slave
traders, and wandering slowly about
studying the regions to the west ant
south Of Tanganyika, cared for ant
aided by the natives, who reverence(
him as a superior being.
Stanley moved inland from Zanzi
bar in the spring of 1871. By June b.
had reached Unyanyembe, where h.
was again delayed. At last he wa
able to proceed into that vast wilder
ness, somewhere in which was Living
stone. Whether Livingstone had gon
across toward the west coast or hat
tried to move northward toward til
Nile valley Stanley did not know.
The fact was that Livingstone, in ex
tremity, had returned to Tanganyika
and had reached Ujiji. There, wher
new supplies should have reached him
he learned that all had been stolen. H
was almost hopeless and helpless, a
old man, i'll, alone, with only tn
friendship of few native tribes be
tween him aud death.
In the nick Of time Stanley arrived
after a month of wandering and terri
bic hardship. The meeting betwee
the two was most dramatic. TO LiV
ingstone 1t meant new life. 1t buoye
him up till all the hardships were fol
gotten. Together the two explore
Tanganyika, and then went back t
Unyanyembe, where Stanley provide
Livingstone with new supplies and
new party Of faithful blacks. The oil
missionary returned to the jungle, t
die a few months later, and Stanley re
traced his steps to give the world tn
story Of his achievement.