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Title: Henry M. Stanley; a record of his early life and struggles; his career in the Confederate army, in the United States navy, and as a war correspondent in Abyssinia; how he found Livingstone, traced the course of the Congo, and founded the Congo Free State, with a full account of his latest and greatest achievement, the rescue of Emin bey
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Reddall, Henry Frederic, 1856-1921
Subjects: Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904 Emin Pasha, 1840-1892
Publisher: New York, R. Bonner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e is rapacious. 336 HENRY M. STANLEY. Stanleys acquaintance with these Arab slave-traders began early. They are the curse ofEquatorial Africa. A few years ago, says Henry Drummond,the well-known German explorer, CaptainWissmann found himself within a few degrees ofthe equator, in the heart of Africa. It was aregion of great beauty and fertility, with forestsand rivers, and great and many-peopled towns.The inhabitants were quiet and peaceable, andlived a life of artless simplicity and happiness.For generations they had been established there ;they grew many fruits in their gardens, andexcelled in the manufacture of cloth, pottery,ironware, and wood-carving. No Arab slaverhad ever visited this country. Within its bordersthe very report of a gun had never once beenheard. But as the explorer walked among thepalm trees and met the kindly eyes of the countrypeople who came to gaze upon the white man,his heart sank. This Arcadia could not last. Heknew, from what had happened in adjacent dis-
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IS ofafa HO 1/2 fa H K/3 o I—t o w STANLEY TO THE RESCUE. 339 tricts, from what happens every day in Africa,that its fate was sealed. And the sequel showed too clearly that hissilent prophecy was right. Four years passed.The same traveler led his caravan once more acrossthis sylvan country. As we approached thevillages we wondered that no one came out toreceive us with rejoicings, that no merry laughtergreeted our ears. We entered the deep shade ofthe mighty palms, and to the right and left werethe clearings where our friends had stood. Tallgrass had overgrown all that formerly gladdenedus. The crops were destroyed ; everything waslaid waste. The silence of death breathes over thelofty crowns of the palms waving in the wind.We enter, and it is in vain we look for the happyhomesteads and erst peaceful scenes. A charredpole here and there, a few banana trees, are theonly evidences that man once dwelt here.Bleached skulls by the road-side, and the skele-tons of human hands attached to

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