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Title: Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M. Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc. ..
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. Chicago, Ill. (etc.) National Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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re, fighting for the old line of kings; and Ulva Dark, thefainily home, had been there. Old Gaelic songs trembled off the lipsof his grandmother, beguiling the social hours. There Avas the spirit ofheroism in the home. And among the traditions there were those of singular virtue and in-tegrity. He classed the dying precept of a hardy ancestor the proudestdistinction of his family; that precept was, Be honest. Honesty is amatchless birthright; he claimed it; he was not proud of anything else.His father was a man of unflinching honesty, and was employed bythe proprietors of Blantyre Works, in conveying very large sums of 3 (33) 34 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. money from Glasgow, and by the honorable kindness of the firm hisintegrity was so rewarded that his declining years were spent where hehad lived, in ease and comfort. He was a man who kept the hearts ofhis children. His kindness and real love were sweeter to them than allthat wealth sometimes bestows as its peculiar gift. He brought his
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DAVID LIVINGSTONE. children up religiously; it was in connection with the Kirk of Scot-land. It is a beautiful tribute of his illustrious son: My father deserved mylasting gratitude and homage for presenting me from my infancy with acontinuously consistent pious example. I revere his memory. The THRILLING ADVENTURES IN AFRICA. ^35 mother of the man appears briefly, and passes from the public view. Shewas a quiet, loving, industrious, self-denying, praying mother. Godknows how to choose mothers for the chosen men. This mother wasthe mother of a great and good man. She was a woman who, by hervirtue and modesty, and fortitude and courage, could bear a hero andinspire him for his destiny. An anxious house-wife, striving to makeboth ends meet, found time and place to exert a true womans singularand mighty influence upon her little boy. We will not presume to esti-mate the magnitude of that influence. We will not say how much hishome had to do with the singular thoughtfulness and distinguis

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