3-043-729 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mr. H. M. Stanley, of New York, the finder of Dr. Livingstone, 1872. Engraving from a photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company. 'Mr. Stanley has been entertained at dinner at the Garrick Club, where he described his journey and the condition in which he found the great English explorer...During the many, many days they travelled together, Mr. Stanley never heard an impatient word from Dr. Livingstone; and it was only at the seacoast that the journalist again realised how much more enterprise was exhibited by his profession than by dilettante travellers, whose object seemed to be to shoot down elephants. Nothing could exceed the tenderness of the respect which Mr. Stanley throughout evinced for the courage of Livingstone, who, as he truly said, had in his many wanderings been touched by the hand of God; nor could anything be more engaging than his earnest relation of the most moving tale which has ever excited all the nations of the civilised world...Mr. Stanley...is a Missourian, twenty-eight years of age, who was one of the army correspondents of the New York Herald in the American civil war; and he was at the Cretan revolt of 1867, and with the Abyssinian expedition of 1868; he has since crossed Asiatic Turkey and Persia to Bombay'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.