Science Fair Project Encyclopedia He became a schoolmaster, and
went to India as principal of the Government Sanskrit College at
Poona, a post which he held during the mutiny of 1857, when he
was able to render services for which he was publicly thanked by
Lord Elphinstone in the Bombay council. Returning to England in
1861 he worked as a journalist on the staff of The Daily
Telegraph, a newspaper with which he continued to be associated
for more than forty years. It was he who, on behalf of the
proprietors of the Daily Telegraph in conjunction with the New
York Herald, arranged the journey of H.M. Stanley to Africa to
discover the course of the Congo River, and Stanley named after
him a mountain to the north-east of Albert Edward Nyanza. Arnold
must also be credited with the first idea of a great trunk line
traversing the entire African continent, for in 1874 he first
employed the phrase "Cape to Cairo railway" subsequently
popularized by Cecil Rhodes. It was, however, as a poet that he
was best known to his