MR H. M. STANLEY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9337, 30 January 1892, Page 2

MR H. M. STANLEY.

Mr H. M. Stanley, the African explorer, will reach Dunedin from Oamaru on Monday, and will give his first lecture in the Garrison Hall the same evening. The circumstantial reports of Mr Stanley's death on his last expedition to relieve Emin Pasha led to the publication of elaborate obituary notices, so that his career is well known to the public. Born of humble parentage, at Denbeigh, Wales, in 1841, John Rowlands emif rated to New. Orleans, where he was adopted by Lenry Morton Stanley, a merchant, whose name the youthful adventurer assumed. His guardian dying, btanley first joined the Confederates in the ~ great Civil War, but before its close changed sides, and was mentioned for bravery. As lieutenant he is next heard of in Asia Minor, where he was captured by brigands, only escaping with his life. In 18bS he was war correspondent in Abyssinia for the New York Herald, and it was from there he was summoned and ordered to "go and find Livingstone." That task involved a terrible experience of 235 days, of Central Africa. In 1876 he accepted a commission' from the Herald and London Daily Telegraph to solve the question of the source of the Nile. He traced the Congo from its source to its mouth, having travelled 7000 miles in 999 days, without seeing a white face. His next expedition was to found the Congo Free State, as a bulwark against the iniquitous slave trade. This occupiel from 1879 to 18S5. He resigned the position of Governor to visit America and Australia, but he was only a few weeks in the States when he was called upon to take the head of the Emin Bey Relief Expedition, the history of the privations of which are fresh in the public mind. On his triumphant return to England Stanley was married to Miss Dorothy Tennaut in Westminster Abbey, and shortly afterwards set off to fulfil his present lecturing tour, an engagement he had made before his last expedition. Such is a brief outline of the career of one of the most notable explorers of modern times.