How I Found Livingstone Travels, Adventures And Discoveries In Central Africa Including Four Months Residence With Dr. Livingstone By Sir Henry M. Stanley
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Events Of Boyhood, Of Youth, And
Manhood; Perils, Travels, Scenes, Joys, And Sorrows; Loves And
Hates; Friendships And Indifferences.
My mind followed the
various and rapid transition of my life's passages; it drew the
lengthy, erratic, sinuous lines of travel my footsteps had passed
over.
If I had drawn them on the sandy floor, what enigmatical
problems they had been to those around me, and what plain,
readable, intelligent histories they had been to me!
The loveliest feature of all to me was the form of a noble, and
true man, who called me son. Of my life in the great pine forests
of Arkansas, and in Missouri, I retained the most vivid impressions.
The dreaming days I passed under the sighing pines on the Ouachita's
shores; the new clearing, the block-house, our faithful black
servant, the forest deer, and the exuberant life I led, were
all well remembered. And I remembered how one day, after we had
come to live near the Mississipi, I floated down, down, hundreds of
miles, with a wild fraternity of knurly giants, the boatmen of
the Mississipi, and how a dear old man welcomed me back, as if
from the grave. I remembered also my travels on foot through
sunny Spain, and France, with numberless adventures in Asia Minor,
among Kurdish nomads. I remembered the battle-fields of America
and the stormy scenes of rampant war. I remembered gold mines,
and broad prairies, Indian councils, and much experience in the
new western lands.
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