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originated and so successfully carried out. For this
information we are indebted to Mr. Stanley’s own
work, entitled “ How I found Livingstone.” The
idea of sending the expedition, he therein tells us, first
occurred to Mr. James Gordon Bennett, the young
manager of the Nevo York Herald, while staying in
Paris. This gentleman telegraphed to Mr. Stanley,
then resident in Madrid, and on his arrival gave him
directions in a few brief sentences to “ go and find
Livingstone.” Whatever money he required would
be forthcoming, and he was to carry out his plans in
the manner he thought best. Acting on these in¬
structions, the young American went to Zanzibar, and
there organized a large caravan, at the head of which
he started on the 5th of February, 1871. Many were
the difficulties and dangers he had to encounter on
the road, as may be gathered from the fact that he lost
by sickness and accident one of the two white men
who accompanied him, two of his armed escort, eight
pagasis, or bearers, two horses, and twenty-seven asses,
but on the 23rd June, 187T, he succeeded in reaching
Unyanyembe. Here he found the Livingstone cara¬
van that had started more than nine months before.
After resting for a few days, Stanley prepared to push
on for Ujiji, but found to his dismay that Mirambo,
the King of Ujowa, had lately declared that no
caravan should pass through his territory unless it went
over his own dead body. The Arabs, whose trading
parties were constantly in the habit of traversing this
district, had taken alarm at Mirambo’s announcement,
and declared war with him. “ Are we prepared,” said