Identifier: wondersoftropics00nort (find matches)
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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d either of these men, or both of them, except as they arethe instruments for penetrating a continent hitherto dark and unknown ;for what they achieved in bringing the dark races of Africa under thefull light of modern civilization and Christianity is, after all, the finestthing to be noted. Whoever studies history knows very well that everyman is building higher than he thinks, accomplishing more than heimagines, casting off results that are left behind him as he crowds on,while his unconscious influence and the incidental effects of his life andundertakings are such as we have no scales for weighing. We closed the last chapter by leaving Stanley within a short distance STANLEY FINDS THE LOST EXPLORER. 319 of Ujiji, where he had every reason to believe he would find Livingstone.Here one part of our narrative of African exploration culminates, andunwonted interest attends it. After having been lost half a dozen years,Livingstone is to be met by a brother white man, who will assure him
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that the world is interested in his welfare. It will be to him a surprise,and a piece of intelligence as gratifying as it is unexpected. It will con-vince him that his heroic sacrifices are not forgotten, and will be treas-ured and commemorated after he is gone. In his thrilling account of the meeting with Livingstone, Stanley 320 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. says: We push on rapidly, lest the news of our coming might reach thepeople of Ujiji before we come in sight, and are ready for them. Wehalt at a little brook, then ascend the long slope of a naked ridge, thevery last of the myriads we have crossed. This alone prevents us fromseeing the lake in all its vastness. We arrive at the summit, travelacross and arrive at its western rim, and—pause, reader—the port ofUjiji is below us, embowered in the palms, only five hundred yardsfrom us. At this grand moment we do not think of the hundreds of miles wehave marched, or of the hundreds of hills that we have ascended and de-scended, or of t

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