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Title: Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ..
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Kelsey, D. M., (from old catalog) comp
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Publisher: St. Louis and Philadelphia, Scammel & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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tthe same time, on board one of which were Bishop Mackenzieand his assistants, for the Universities Missions. The bishop desired them to take him and his colleagues upthe Shire as far as Chibisas, supposing that that would be asuitable place to establish the mission; but Dr. Livingstone,remembering the fate of the station at Linyanti, and fearfulthat, as there were no medical men on the bishops staff, theymight fall victims to the African fever, objected very stronglyto this plan. In addition to this reason, was another: thePortuguese government refused to open the Zambesi to theships of other nations, and it was therefore impolitic to ex-pend so much labor at this point, when others that wereequally important and more easily accessible were neglected.Finally, it was decided that the bishop should accompany theZambesi expedition to the Rovuma, which their new instruc-tions bade them explore, and ascertain whether the countryaround its headwaters was suitable for the establishment of a
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LIVINGSTONE THE GREAT EXPLOREE. 359 station. The other members of the mission were to proceed,in one of the cruisers, to Johanna, and there await the ordersof their superior. Arriving at the mouth of the Rovuma toward the end ofFebruary, it was not until the 11th of March that they pro-ceeded up the river, which had fallen four or five feet whilethey were delayed at the mouth, awaiting the arrival of thebishop; for he had chosen to go this far in the cruiser Lyra.But the river fell rapidly as they ascended, and as the Marchflood is the last of the season, they saw that the only thing tosave the Pioneer from being hopelessly grounded was to get herback to salt water as quickly as possible. Had the expeditionbeen absolutely unincumbered, they would have left the shipand pushed on in boats or on foot, and done what they couldtoward the exploration of the river and Lake Nyassa, fromwhich it was supposed to flow; but they were anxious to ad-vance the work of the mission, and therefore deci

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