Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-08-19
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
STANlEY'S GREAT EXPLOIT.

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Although the fame of Sir Henry M.
Stanley, who died in London on May
10th, will rest ON his exploration OF
the upper Congo and of equatorial At
rica, it is his search for David Living
stone through the African jungles and
his finding of the missing missionary
at Ujiji, on the shore of Tanganuika,
that appeals most to the dramatic feel
| ing Of the world. In "Eccentricities of
Genius" Major J. B. Pond quotes a
writty reference to this achievement,
which was made by Mark Twain in in
Producing Mr.. Stanley to Boston au-
dience.
Il am not here to .disparage Colum-
bus" said Mr.. Clemens. mo, l won't
do 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-
countered, the advantage is with STAN
ley and against Columbus.
columbus started out to discover
America. He didn't need to do any
thing at all but sit in the cabin of his
ship, hold his grip and sail straight
on, and America would discover itself.
Here it was, barring his passage the
whole length and breadth of two con-
tinents. 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 a vast slab
of Africa as big as the United Staes.
1t was 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 been
fighting for his life against the raw
ages of fever and disease, contending
vainly against his old foes, the slave
traders, and wandering slowly about,
studying the regions to the west and
south Of Tanganyika, cared for and
aided by the natives, who reverenced
him as superior being.
Stanley moved inland from Zanzi-
bar in the spring of 1871. By June he
had reached Unyanyembe, where he
was again delayed. At last he was
able to proceed into that vast wilder
ness, somewhere in which was Living
stone. Whether Livingstone had gone
across toward the west coast or had
tried to move northward toward the
Nile valley Stanley did not know.
The fact was that Livingstone, in ex-
tremity, had returned to Tanganyika,
and had reached Ujiji. There, where
new supplies should have reached him,
he learned that all had been stolen. He
was almost hopeless and helpless, an
old man, i'll, alone, with only the
friendship of a few native tribes be-
tween him and death.
In the nick of time Stanley arrived,
after a month Of wandering and terri
BILE hardship. The meeting between
the two was most dramatic. To Liv-
ingstone it meant new life. 1t buoyed
ullu up I'LL Ill Tie udIuSuipS were 1OI-
gotten. Together the two explored
and then went back to
where Stanley provided
with new supplies and
new party Of faithful blacks. The old
returned to the jungle, to
die few months later, and Stanley re-
traced his steps to give the world the
story of his achievement.