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Sydney Smith (search for this): part 2.13, chapter 2.17
and with the exercise of patience came greater self-control and experience. My ideas respecting my Zanzibari and Unyamwezi followers were modified after a few weeks' observation and trials of them. Certain vices and follies, which clung to their uneducated natures, were the source of great trouble; though there were brave virtues in most of them, which atoned for much that appeared incorrigible. Wellington is reported to have said that he never knew a good-tempered man in India; and Sydney Smith thought that sweetness of temper was impossible in a very cold or a very hot climate. With such authorities it is somewhat bold, perhaps, to disagree; but after experiences of Livingstone, Pocock, Swinburne, Surgeon Parke, and other white men, one must not take these remarks too literally. As for my black followers, no quality was so conspicuous and unvarying as good-temper; and I think that, since I had more occasion to praise my black followers than blame them, even I must surely take
F. R. Webb (search for this): part 2.13, chapter 2.17
m nobody knew; in my pocket I had about eighty dollars in gold left, after my fifteen months journey! Many people since have professed to disbelieve that I discovered the lost traveller in Africa! Had they known the circumstances of my arrival at Zanzibar, they would have had greater reason for their unbelief than they had. To me it looked for a time as though it would be an impossibility for me even to put foot on the mainland, though it was only twenty-five miles off. But, thanks to Captain Webb, the American consul, I succeeded in raising a sum of money amply sufficient, for the time being, for my purpose. The sinews of war having been obtained, the formation of the expedition was proceeded with. On the 21St of March, 1871, it stood a compact little force of three whites, thirty-one armed freemen of Zanzibar, as escort, one hundred and fifty-three porters, and twenty-seven pack-animals, for a transport corps, besides two riding-horses, on the outskirts of the coast-town of B
Richard F. Burton (search for this): part 2.13, chapter 2.17
about which I know so little that it will be hard to make a summary of what I am told at each meal. One cannot always have his note-book handy, for we drop upon a subject so suddenly, and often, in my interest, I forget what I ought to do. I must trust largely to the fact that I am becoming steeped in Livingstonian ideas upon everything that is African, from pity for the big-stomached picaninny, clinging to the waist-strings of its mother, to the missionary bishop, and the great explorers, Burton, Speke, and Baker. He is a strong man in every way, with an individual tenacity of character. His memory is retentive. How he can remember Whittier's poems, couplets out of which I hear frequently, as well as from Longfellow, I cannot make out. I do not think he has any of these books with him. But he recites them as though he had read them yesterday. March 3. Livingstone reverted again to his charges against the missionaries on the Zambesi, and some of his naval officers on the exp
Henry Stanley (search for this): part 2.13, chapter 2.17
to fight. Ulimengo stood up and laid hold of me. On freeing myself, I searched for some handy instrument; but, at this juncture, Living-stone came out of the tent, and cried out to Ulimengo, Poli-Poli-hapo [Gently there]! What is the matter, Mr. Stanley? Almost breathless between passion and quinine, I spluttered out my explanations. Then, lifting his right hand with the curved forefinger, he said, I will settle this. I stood quieted; but, what with unsatisfied rage and shameful weakness, ed and furnished with men, means, medicines, and instruments, and a small herd of cattle, set out for the scene of his explorations. Eight months later, the heroic life came to its heroic end. From an unpublished Memorial to Livingstone by Stanley, the following passages are taken. He preached no sermon, by word of mouth, while I was in company with him; but each day of my companionship with him witnessed a sermon acted. The Divine instructions, given of old on the Sacred Mount, were
Mars (search for this): part 2.13, chapter 2.17
im among his own kindred, to those he feels when he discovers himself to be a solitary white man in the new world of savage Africa, and all the pageantry of civilisation, its blessings, its protection, its politics, its energy and power,--all have become a mere memory. I was but a few days in the wilderness, on the other side of the Kingani River, when it dawned upon me with a most sobering effect. The sable native regarded me with as much curiosity as I should have regarded a stranger from Mars. He saw that I was outwardly human, but his desire to know whether my faculties and usages were human as well was very evident, and until it was gratified by the putting of my hand into his and speaking to him, his doubt was manifest. My mission to find Livingstone was very simple, and was a clear and definite aim. All I had to do was to free my mind from all else, and relieve it of every earthly desire but the finding of the man whom I was sent to seek. To think of self, friends, bankin
May Livingstone (search for this): part 2.13, chapter 2.17
and a few seconds later the two white men — Livingstone and myself — met, as already described. nished this to him there and then, no doubt Livingstone would have been alive to-day, This was w a quantity of meat, which will be useful. Livingstone, this afternoon, got upon his favourite topgh he had read them yesterday. March 3. Livingstone reverted again to his charges against the ms my feet; but I would not let him. Then Livingstone took me by the arm to the tent, saying, Comis is the last day of my stay with dear old Livingstone; the last night we shall be together is pre On the fifty-fourth day after leaving Dr. Livingstone, I arrived at Zanzibar. Two weeks later, expeditionary force which was to accompany Livingstone for a period of two years for the completioo days on the road. Fourteen days later, Livingstone, amply equipped and furnished with men, meac end. From an unpublished Memorial to Livingstone by Stanley, the following passages are take[5 more...]<
Roderick Murchison (search for this): part 2.13, chapter 2.17
that he was unable to accomplish anything, even if youth could have been restored to him? Briefly, I will answer that his return to home and kindred was prevented by an over-scrupulous fidelity to a promise that he had made to his friend Sir R. Murchison--that he would set the matter of that watershed north of the Tanganyika at rest. But, strive as he might, misfortune dogged him; dauntlessly he urged his steps forward over the high plateaus between Nyasa and Tanganyika, but, steadily, evil precepts issued by his church, wherein these were specially alluded to; but it grew evident during our acquaintance that he erred not against any of them. Greater might he could not have shown in this interminable exploration set him by Sir Roderick Murchison, because the work performed by him was beyond all proportion to his means and physical strength. What bread he ate was insufficient for his bodily nourishment, after the appalling fatigues of a march in a tropical land. His conversati
Ulimengo (search for this): part 2.13, chapter 2.17
st before the day we got our letters from Europe, I went to the cook Ulimengo, who was acting in Ferajji's place; and, being half-mad with thsolent question, but because I recognised a disposition to fight. Ulimengo stood up and laid hold of me. On freeing myself, I searched for sothis juncture, Living-stone came out of the tent, and cried out to Ulimengo, Poli-Poli-hapo [Gently there]! What is the matter, Mr. Stanley? rolled down as copiously as when a child. I heard him say, Now, Ulimengo, you are a big fool: a big, thick-headed fellow. I believe you arikes, not me. Try and get all that into that thick skull of yours, Ulimengo. Don't you see that he is very ill, you rascal? Now, go and ask his pardon, Go on. And Ulimengo said he was very sorry, and wanted to kiss my feet; but I would not let him. Then Livingstone took me byittle, I softened down; and, before night, I had shaken hands with Ulimengo. It is the memory of several small events, which, though not wort
Paris (search for this): part 2.13, chapter 2.17
d and said in an inquiring tone,-- Dr. Livingstone, I presume? Smiling cordially, he lifted his cap, and answered briefly, Yes. This ending all scepticism on my part, my face betrayed the earnestness of my satisfaction as I extended my hand and added,-- I thank God, Doctor, that I have been permitted to see you. In his book How I Found Livingstone, Stanley recognised the guiding hand of an over-ruling and kindly Providence in the following words:-- Had I gone direct from Paris on the search, I might have lost him; had I been enabled to have gone direct to Ujiji from Unyanyembe, I might have lost him. In the warm grasp he gave my hand, and the heartiness of his voice, I felt that he also was sincere and earnest as he replied,-- I feel most thankful that I am here to welcome you. The principal Arabs now advanced, and I was presented by the Doctor to Sayed bin Majid, a relative of the Prince of Zanzibar; to Mahommed bin Sali, the Governor of Ujiji; to Abed
January 3rd, 1872 AD (search for this): part 2.13, chapter 2.17
of the kind he needed were procurable at Ujiji, it was necessary that he should return with me to Unyanyembe, and rest there until I could provide him with the force he needed. To this, the last of many propositions made to him, he agreed. After exploring together the north end of Lake Tanganyika, and disproving the theory that the Lake had any connection with the Albert Nyanza, we set out from Ujiji, on the 27th December, 1871, and arrived at Unyanyembe on the 18th February, 1872. January 3, 1872. Had some modest sport among some zebras, and secured a quantity of meat, which will be useful. Livingstone, this afternoon, got upon his favourite topics, the Zambesi Mission, the Portuguese and Arab slave-trade, and these subjects invariably bring him to relate incidents about what he has witnessed of African nature and aptitudes. I conclude, from the importance he attaches to these, that he is more interested in ethnology than in topographical geography. Though the Nile problem a
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