LIVINGSTONE AND STANLEY

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 39, 12 September 1930, Page 7

LIVINGSTONE AND STANLEY

EXPLORER’S MEMENTOES. PARIS, July 21. Interesting mementoes of Sir Henry Stanley’s expedition to the Congo in search of Livingstone, have been found by Colonel Charles Wellington Furlong, the explorer and author, who has just reached Paris after six months in the African jungle. Colonel Furlong set out from Mombasa and went through parts of the Belgian Congo, Tanganyika and Uganda. With some ninety negroes and one or two white men, he travelled nearly 7000 miles by lorry and hundreds of miles on foot. He had many adventures, and, following the old Stanley trail for several miles, he got into touch with natives who knew Livingstone and Stanley. He met the faithful servant of Livingstone who helped to carry the great explorer’s body out of the wilds. Livingstone died in 1873.

It was from the son of Matubi, the most trusted servant of Stanley, that Colonel Furlong obtained relics of Stanley’s journey. Matubi’s son, now chief in his father’s place, allowed Colonel Furlong to buy from him a beautiful iron spearhead and a brass bracelet which Stanley gave to his father. He also presented Colonel Furlong with a letter of thanks sent by Lady Stanley to Matubi.