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Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 2.13, chapter 2.20 (search)
d, imperious manner, pallid white face, and dead, lustreless eyes, is a sealed book. The most tragic pages in the history relate his coming upon a series of villages just ravaged by a ferocious slave-raid of the Arabs, and afterwards finding a herd of the wretched captives chained and guarded. It is a terrible picture. Over a hundred villages had been devastated, and the five thousand carried away as slaves stood for six times as many slain, or dying by the way-side. The Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, presiding at a banquet, in connection with the London School of Tropical Medicine, on May 11, 1905, said: Compare the total number killed in the whole series of our expeditions and campaigns in Africa, and you will find they do not approach a fraction of the native population destroyed every year before our advent. My friend, Sir Henry M. Stanley, once told me that, at the time of his early expeditions, he estimated that more than a million natives were slain every year in the Co
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 2.13, chapter 2.22 (search)
ch Malaria and other dread Tropical diseases imposed against the progress of civilisation and commercial enterprise in Africa; and he followed with keen interest and hopefulness the discoveries of Sir Patrick Manson, and Major Ross, proving the mosquito to be the host and carrier of the malarial parasite, and also the successful devices of these scientists for checking and reducing the death-toll from this scourge. He particularly applauded the great, far-seeing, Colonial Secretary, Joseph Chamberlain, for his practical measures, by which he had done more than any other Statesman to render the Tropical regions of the Empire habitable and healthy. Stanley's last public appearance was at a dinner to Dr. Andrew Balfour, on his appointment as Director of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories, Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum, and, in the course of a very moving speech on the development of Africa since his first expedition, Stanley said that, at one time, he thought the Equato
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 2.13, Index (search)
ath of, 459; Stanley's affection for, 459, 460. Bryce, James, 478. Brynford, 41. Buell, General D. C., on the battle of Shiloh, 203 n. Burdett-Coutts, the Baroness and Mr., 418. Burgevine, General, 166. Burton, Sir Richard F., 423, 424. Campbell-Bannerman, 504. Camperio, Captain, 424. Canterbury, 432, 433. Carnarvon, Stanley's reception at, 431. Carnival, the, at Odessa, 247. Casati, 424. Caucasus, Stanley in the, 245. Cave City, in camp at, 179-185. Chamberlain, the Rt. Hon. Joseph, on the slave-trade in Africa, 344 n.; as a debater, 479; on South Africa, 495; as a speaker, 503. Christopherson, Albert, 345. Civil War in America, events preceding, 161-166; Stanley's part in, 167-221; why men enlisted for, 168; Northern view of cause of, 202. Cleveland, President, his Venezuelan message, 482. Clwyd, Vale of, 51. Coleman, Mr., 159. Columbus, Ohio, the Gibraltar of the Mississippi, 175. Congo, the, traced by Stanley, 318-330; opened