"Find Livingstone!" When James Gordon Bennett, famous publisher of the New York "Herald," called in his star reporter one day in 1869 and hurled this order in his direction, he was giving the young newsgatherer more than a decidedly tough assignment; he was instigating one of the Content historical adventures on record.
Until that fateful- morning, Henry M. Stanley was just a good newspaper man—tough, talented, hard-boiled, determined—considering every assignment a challenge and his life a small item to risk in the vital business of "getting the story."
In his early teens, Stanley went to sea as a cabin boy, on a boat bound for New Orleans. There he had the good fortune to be adopted by a merchant, Henry M. Stanley, whose name he later assumed. When the Civil Wer broke out, he enlisted in the Confederate Army and was taken prisoner, With a change in his convictions, he Joined the Federal Artillery, to be transferred shortly after to the United States Navy.
Ordered to Begin Search When peace was signed, he went as a newspaper correspondent to Turkey and Asia Minor, and in 1868, he accompanied Lord Magdala to Abyssinia as correspondent for the New York "Herald." It was following this adventure that he was entrusted with the assignment of discovering the fate of Doctor Livingstone.
As the story Is reconstructed in the film, the son of Lord Tyce, publisher of the London "Globe," had just re-urned, broken in health, - from a similar expedition, to report Livingstone dead. Bennett believed that he vad trusted too much to hearsay and hat the case was still "not proven!" 3o, in 1869 he ordered Stanley to go back to Africa, find the famous missionary doctor get "the greatest story of all time" for the New York "Herald." stanley set out with little fanfare, aking with him an old Indian scout At Zanzibar, the pair made the acquaintance of the British consul and his daughter, with whom Stanley promptly proceeded to fall in love, although she was already engaged to the still convalescing explorer whose report had started Bennett on the trail. There, too, he met for the fi time the English newspaper proprietor and started a feud that was to flare up later.
Down With Jungle Fever Telling the young folks that he had no desire to conquer Africa but was just a newspaper man out to get the story, Stanley set out for the interior with a handful of natives and his Indian scout, Things went swimmingly at first and the little party made good progress. But the months went by and he got no ward of Living: stone. Attacks from hostile natives became frequent and the intrepid' young explorer went down with a bad attack of jungle fever that was nearly ithe end of him. Then, one day, while he was still too week to move about, came the news of a tribe who! bad seen the White Man—the other white man! Who gould it be but Livingstone Forgetting his weariness, Stanley was once again the newspaper man, out to get his story. Lil broke compl and moved in the direction of the from the East, and just ahead of him. was the other, David Livingstone.
Though. he had been "found," i however, the good doctor was unwilling to admit that he had been Yours"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.