How I Found Livingstone

h from the carnage at Valencia. At 10 A.M. Jacopo, at No.- Calle de la Cruz, handed me a telegram: It read, "Come to Pari

and souvenirs, my clothes were hastily collected, some half washed, some from the clothes-line half dr

hours, did not arrive at Paris until the following night. I went strai

Entering, I found Mr. Bennett

Stanley,"

have important busin

s robe-de-chambre Mr. Bennett asked,

do not k

hink he i

d he may not b

that he can be found, and I am

nk I can find Dr Livingstone? Do y

erhaps"-delivering himself thoughtfully and deliberately-"the old man may be in want:-take enough with you to help him sh

whom I, in common with almost all other men, believed to be dead, "Have you considered

cost?" he as

frica cost between ￡3,000 and ￡5,000, an

one through that, draw another thousand, and when that is spent, draw another thousand,

e from his purpose-I yet thought, seeing it was such a gigantic scheme, that he had not quite considered in his own mind the pr

ather has made it a great paper, but I mean to make it greater. I mean that it shall be a newspaper in the true sen

e to say. Do you mean me to go straight o

or Upper Egypt. Find out what you can about his expedition, and as you go up describe as well as possible whatever is interesting

aking some interesting discoveries there. Then visit Constantinople

s the Caucasus to the Caspian Sea; I hear there is a Russian expedition bound for Khiva. From t

u can go after Livingstone. Probably you will hear by that time that Livingstone is on his way to Zanzibar; but if not, go into the interior and find him. If aliv

ower of human nature to do I will do; and on su

He was just the man who would have delighted to tell the journal he was eng

e great task before me, I had to appear as if only going to be present at the Suez Canal. Young King followed me to the express train boun

itulate what I did before

engineers to see the marks of the Tyrian workmen on the foundation-stones of the Temple of Solomon. I visited the mosques of Stamboul with the Minister Resident of the United States, and the American Consul-General. I travelled over the Crimean battle-grounds with Kinglake's glorious books for reference in my hand. I dined with the widow of General Liprandi at Odessa. I saw the Arabian traveller Palgrave at Treb

cellent navigator, and thinking he might be useful to me, I employed him; his pay to begin from the date we should leave Zanzibar for Bagamoyo. As there was no opportunity of getting, to Zanzibar direct, I took ship to Seychelles. Three or four days after arriving at Mahe, one

ly a narrative of my search after Livingstone, the great African traveller. It is an Icarian flight of journalism, I confess; s

an Indian name which, translated, means "soldiers." They are armed and equipped like soldiers, though they engage themselves also as servants; but it would be more pretentious in me to call them servants, than to use the word "soldier

es, my thoughts, and my impressions. Yet though I may sometimes write, "my expedition," or "my caravan," it by no means follows that I arrogate to myself this right. For it must be distinctly understoo

of the greater interest it appears to possess over the diary form, and I think that in this mann