DEATH OF H. M. STANLEY.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1681, 18 May 1904, Page 60

DEATH OF H. M. STANLEY.

LONDON, May 10. The death is announced of Mr H. M. Stanley, from pleurisy. Mr Stanley was born in 1841, and from the workhouse at St. Asaph went to sea. He served in the Confederate army in the American Civil War, and subsequently joined the Federal army. At the age of twenty-six he was a correspondent with the British army in Abyssinia, and in 1870 was sent by the New York “Herald” to seek for Dr Livingstone in Central Africa, and lay the foundation of his fame as an explorer of the Dark Continent. Stanley found Livingstone at Lake Tanganyika in the following year, and was received with great enthusiasm on his arrival in England. He afterwards made several exppditions to the Congo and the interior of Africa, and his discoveries on those occasions are set forth in publications, which have been widely read, such as “Through the Dark Continent,” “Tlie Congo, and Founding its Free State” and “In Darkest Africa,” the latter having reference to the relief of Emin Pasha.