HENRY M. STANLEY. HENRY M. STANLEY. for the fact that the hair of the .explorer has become nearly white and his features more worn and weather beaten as reported by the cable accounts it is notdif Omit to see in the resolute mien and resourceful ex preAsion which the artist has portrayed the hero now of the trial of Warren Hastings who did so much to establish the British empire in India Macaulay mentions as peculiarly applicable to the distinguished Stanley was born in Denbigh Wales in 1840. His parents were named Rowlands and being exceedingly poor they gave him to the care of the parish
HENRY M. STANLEY. HENRY M. STANLEY. for the fact that the hair of the .explorer has become nearly white and his features more worn and weather beaten as reported by the cable accounts it is notdif Omit to see in the resolute mien and resourceful ex preAsion which the artist has portrayed the hero now of the trial of Warren Hastings who did so much to establish the British empire in India Macaulay mentions as peculiarly applicable to the distinguished Stanley was born in Denbigh Wales in 1840. His parents were named Rowlands and being exceedingly poor they gave him to the care of the parish when he was three years old atid he was reared in the alms house at St. Asaph. After obtaining a fair education here he taught school for a year or tw when he went as a cabin boy °ma ship bound for New Orleans. Here he met a wealthy American merchant named Stanley who adopted him and he took the name of Henry His love of adventure was however overmastering through the Eastern countries and in Abyssinia and Spain as a roving cortespondent until October 1869 when Mr. Bennett sent him to find Livingstone: The story of that wonderful achievement is told in his book one of the most fascinating records of exploration. Mr. Bennett sent him back to Africa almost immediately after his return from the Livingstone expedition and, scientific american, 1889-12-21
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