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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I Had Gone Over
Battlefields, Witnessed Revolutions, Civil Wars, Rebellions,
Emeutes And Massacres; Stood Close To The Condemned Murderer To
Record his last struggles and last sighs; but never had I been
called to record anything that moved me so
Much as this man's woes
and sufferings, his privations and disappointments, which now were
poured into my ear. Verily did I begin to perceive that "the
Gods above do with just eyes survey the affairs of men." I began
to recognize the hand of an overruling and kindly Providence.
The following are singular facts worthy for reflection. I was,
commissioned for the duty of discovering Livingstone sometime in
October, 1869. Mr. Bennett was ready with the money, and I was
ready for the journey. But, observe, reader, that I did not
proceed directly upon the search mission. I had many tasks to
fulfil before proceeding with it, and many thousand miles to
travel over. Supposing that I had gone direct to Zanzibar from
Paris, seven or eight months afterwards, perhaps, I should have
found myself at Ujiji, but Livingstone would not have been found
there then; he was on the Lualaba; and I should have had to
follow him on his devious tracks through the primeval forests of
Manyuema, and up along the crooked course of the Lualaba for
hundreds of miles. The time taken by me in travelling up the
Nile, back to Jerusalem, then to Constantinople, Southern Russia,
the Caucasus, and Persia, was employed by Livingstone in fruitful
discoveries west of the Tanganika.
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