The summary itself of these adventures is very brief and
vague. Mr. Stanley seems to have engaged in a rather superfluous sort of war with the King of Ujowa, and the war seems to have ended even more casually than it began. Very few dates and very few distances are given. We are told that after the war "Shaw the English- man " deserted Mr. Stanley in his expedition, under the spiritual intimidation of extraordinary tales told by the Arabs, after which Mr. Stanley entered the desert, and passed through " several hundred miles of country scarcely known to the Arabs themselves." At last he reached Ujiji, which, on the 3rd November, 1871, ho entered,—rather imprudently, One would say, —in an imposing pro- cession, headed by the American flag, and with all the men dis- charging their firearms as fast as they could load them. At the entrance of the town, Mr. Stanley saw " a pale-looking, grey- bearded white man," in a red woollen jacket, wearing a naval cap with a faded gilt band on it. Fearing the effect of any display of feeling before the natives and the Arabs, Mr. Stanley only said, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume ?" and Dr. Livingstone only smiled and replied, " Yes." On the 20th November Mr. Stanley and Dr. Livingstone made an expedition together to the northern end of Lake Tanganyika, returning to Ujiji to spend Christmas. On the 26th December they loft together for Unyanyembe, whence, on the 14th March, Dr. Livingstone returned to complete his Nile researches, while Mr. Stanley set out for Zanzibar, sending in advance of him these accounts. The summary has an air about it not entirely historical, but we cannot expect historians to plunge into African jungles in search of lost travellers ; and the "special correspondents" who will do this are apt to prefer a hold
but vague style of delineation. Dr. Livingetone's letters, of which Mr. Stanley is the bearer, should arrive, we presume, by the next mail.
