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[Illustration: COLUMBIA PRESENTING STANLEY TO EUROPEAN SOVEREIGNS.]




                                STANLEY

                               IN AFRICA.

                                  THE

                         WONDERFUL DISCOVERIES

                                  AND

                          THRILLING ADVENTURES

                                   OF

                       THE GREAT AFRICAN EXPLORER

                               AND OTHER

                 TRAVELERS, PIONEERS AND MISSIONARIES.

              BEAUTIFULLY AND ELABORATELY ILLUSTRATED WITH

                  ENGRAVINGS,  PLATES AND MAPS

                                   BY

                          JAMES P. BOYD, A.M.

           Author of "Political History of the United States"
                  and "Life of Gen. U. S. Grant," etc.


                          ROSE PUBLISHING CO.,

                            TORONTO, CANADA.


                            Copyright, 1889

                                   BY

                             JAMES P. BOYD.




                             INTRODUCTION.


A volume of travel, exploration and adventure is never without
instruction and fascination for old and young. There is that within us
all which ever seeks for the mysteries which are bidden behind mountains,
closeted in forests, concealed by earth or sea, in a word, which are
enwrapped by Nature. And there is equally that within us which is touched
most sensitively and stirred most deeply by the heroism which has
characterized the pioneer of all ages of the world and in every field of
adventure.

How like enchantment is the story of that revelation which the New
America furnished the Old World! What a spirit of inquiry and exploit it
opened! How unprecedented and startling, adventure of every kind became!
What thrilling volumes tell of the hardships of daring navigators or of
the perils of brave and dashing landsmen! Later on, who fails to read
with the keenest emotion of those dangers, trials and escapes which
enveloped the intrepid searchers after the icy secrets of the Poles, or
confronted those who would unfold the tale of the older civilizations and
of the ocean's island spaces.

Though the directions of pioneering enterprise change, yet more and more
man searches for the new. To follow him, is to write of the wonderful.
Again, to follow him is to read of the surprising and the thrilling. No
prior history of discovery has ever exceeded in vigorous entertainment
and startling interest that which centers in "The Dark Continent" and has
for its most distinguished hero, Henry M. Stanley. His coming and going
in the untrodden and hostile wilds of Africa, now to rescue the stranded
pioneers of other nationalities, now to explore the unknown waters of
a mighty and unique system, now to teach cannibal tribes respect for
decency and law, and now to map for the first time with any degree of
accuracy, the limits of new dynasties, make up a volume of surpassing
moment and peculiar fascination.

All the world now turns to Africa as the scene of those adventures which
possess such a weird and startling interest for readers of every class,
and which invite to heroic exertion on the part of pioneers. It is the
one dark, mysterious spot, strangely made up of massive mountains, lofty
and extended plateaus, salt and sandy deserts, immense fertile stretches,
climates of death and balm, spacious lakes, gigantic rivers, dense
forests, numerous, grotesque and savage peoples, and an animal life of
fierce mien, enormous strength and endless variety. It is the country of
the marvelous, yet none of its marvels exceed its realities.

And each exploration, each pioneering exploit, each history of adventure
into its mysterious depths, but intensifies the world's view of it and
enhances human interest in it, for it is there the civilized nations are
soon to set metes and bounds to their grandest acquisitions--perhaps in
peace, perhaps in war. It is there that white colonization shall try its
boldest problems. It is there that Christianity shall engage in one of
its hardest contests.

Victor Hugo says, that "Africa will be the continent of the twentieth
century." Already the nations are struggling to possess it. Stanley's
explorations proved the majesty and efficacy of equipment and force amid
these dusky peoples and through the awful mazes of the unknown. Empires
watched with eager eye the progress of his last daring journey. Science
and civilization stood ready to welcome its results. He comes to light
again, having escaped ambush, flood, the wild beast and disease, and
his revelations set the world aglow. He is greeted by kings, hailed by
savants, and looked to by the colonizing nations as the future pioneer of
political power and commercial enterprise in their behalf, as he has been
the most redoubtable leader of adventure in the past.

This miraculous journey of the dashing and intrepid explorer, completed
against obstacles which all believed to be insurmountable, safely ended
after opinion had given him up as dead, together with its bearings on the
fortunes of those nations who are casting anew the chart of Africa, and
upon the native peoples who are to be revolutionized or exterminated by
the last grand surges of progress, all these render a volume dedicated to
travel and discovery, especially in the realm of "The Dark Continent,"
surprisingly agreeable and useful at this time.

[Illustration: MARCHING THROUGH EQUATORIAL AFRICA.]




                               CONTENTS.


  HENRY M. STANLEY,                                                 19

Stanley is safe; the world's rejoicings; a new volume in African
    annals; who is "this wizard of travel?" story of Stanley's life;
    a poor Welsh boy; a work-house pupil; teaching school; a sailor
    boy; in a New Orleans counting-house; an adopted child; bereft
    and penniless; a soldier of the South; captured and a prisoner;
    in the Federal Navy; the brilliant correspondent; love of travel
    and adventure; dauntless amid danger; in Asia-Minor and Abyssinia;
    at the court of Spain; in search of Livingstone; at Ujiji on
    Tanganyika; the lost found; across the "dark continent;" down the
    dashing Congo; boldest of all marches; acclaim of the world.


  THE CONGO FREE STATE,                                             27

A Congo's empire; Stanley's grand conception; European ambitions; the
    International Association; Stanley off for Zanzibar; enlists his
    carriers; at the mouth of the Congo; preparing to ascend the river;
    his force and equipments; the river and river towns; hippopotamus
    hunting; the big chiefs of Vivi; the "rock-breaker;" founding
    stations; making treaties; tribal characteristics; Congo scenes;
    elephants, buffaloes and water-buck; building houses and planting
    gardens; making roads; rounding the portages; river crocodiles and
    the steamers; foraging in the wilderness; products of the country;
    the king and the gong; no more war fetish; above the cataracts;
    Stanley Pool and Leopoldville; comparison of Congo with other
    rivers; exploration of the Kwa; Stanley sick; his return to Europe;
    further plans for his "Free State;" again on the Congo; Bolobo and
    its chiefs; medicine for wealth; a free river, but no land; scenery
    on the upper Congo; the Watwa dwarfs; the lion and his prey; war
    at Bolobo; the Equator station; a long voyage ahead; a modern
    Hercules; tropical scenes; a trick with a tiger skin; hostile
    natives; a canoe brigade; the Aruwimi; ravages of slave traders;
    captive women and children; to Stanley Falls; the cataracts;
    appointing a chief; the people and products; wreck of a steamer; a
    horrible massacre; down the Congo to Stanley Pool; again at Bolobo;
    a burnt station; news from missionaries; at Leopoldville; down to
    Vivi; the treaties with chiefs; treaty districts; the Camaroon
    country; oil river region; Stanley's return to London; opinions
    of African life; thirst for rum; adventures and accidents; advice
    to adventurers; outlines of the Congo Free State; its wealth and
    productions; commercial value; the Berlin conference; national
    jurisdiction; constitution of the Congo Free States; results.


  THE SEARCH FOR EMIN,                                             139

Stanley's call; the Belgian king; the Emin Pasha relief committee;
    Stanley in charge of the expedition; off for Central Africa;
    rounding the cataracts; the rendezvous at Stanley Pool; who
    is Emin? his life and character; a favorite of Gordon; fall
    of Khartoum; Emin cut off in equatorial Soudan; rising of the
    Mahdi; death of Gordon; Emin lost in his equatorial province; his
    capitals and country; Stanley pushes to the Aruwimi; Tippoo Tib
    and his promises; Barttelot and the camps; trip up the Aruwimi;
    wanderings in the forest; battles with the dwarfs; sickness,
    starvation and death; lost in the wilds; the plains at last; grass
    and banana plantations; arrival at Albert Nyanza; no word of Emin;
    back to the Aruwimi for boats; another journey to the lake; Emin
    found; tantalizing consultations; Stanley leaves for his forest
    stations; treachery of Tippoo Tib; massacre of Barttelot; the
    Mahdi influence; again for the Lake to save Emin; willing to leave
    Africa; the start for Zanzibar; hardships of the trip; safe arrival
    at Zanzibar; accident to Emin; the world's applause; Stanley a
    hero.


  EGYPT AND THE NILE,                                              185

Shaking hands at Ujiji; Africa a wonderland; Mizriam and Ham; Egypt
    a gateway; mother of literature, art and religion; the Jews
    and Egypt; mouths of the Nile; the Rosetta stone; Suez Canal;
    Alexandria; Pharos, a "wonder of the world;" Cleopatra's needles;
    Pompey's Pillar; the catacombs; up the Nile to Cairo; description
    of Cairo; Memphis; the Pyramids and Sphinx; convent of the pulley;
    Abydos its magnificent ruins; City of "the Hundred Gates;" temple
    of Luxor; statues of Memnon; the palace temple of Thebes; the
    old Theban Kings; how they built; ruins of Karnak; most imposing
    in the world; temples of Central Thebes; wonderful temple of
    Edfou; the Island of Philae; the