H. M. Stanley, the African Explorer. By Arthur Montefiore. (S.
W. Partridge.)—H. M. Stanley is an Englishman, or, to speak more accurately, a Welshman (his real name is John Reliant), born at Denbigh, and educated in the workhouse school of St. Asaph, from which he ran away when he was fifteen. He spent a few months as a pupil-teacher in a cousin's school ; emigrated to America, and there found employment with a merchant of the name of Stanley, who adopted him, but from whom he ultimately got nothing but his name. This was at New Orleans. Hence his enlistment in the Confederate Army. He was taken prisoner at Pittsburg, escaped, returned to England, and then coming back to the States, enlisted in the Federal Navy, obtaining his commission for an act of daring in the capture of a Confederate steamer. Various adventures followed, among them a share in the Abyssinian Campaign. At last, in 1869, came the call to the work of his life,—African exploration. James Gordon Bennett sent bim to find Livingstone. The life of this extraordinary man will be found in a convenient shape in Mr. Montefiore's volume.
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