. Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ... sed to express high admiration. Stanley bade farewell to Livingstone March 14, 1872; it waswith much regret that he did so, for although their acquaint-ance had been but four months in duration, it had been so in-timate, and he had learned so to revere and love the elderman that it was as if he were leaving the tried friend of manyyears. Livingstone committed to Stanleys care his journal, proper-ly sealed, and many papers and letters. The box containingth
. Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ... sed to express high admiration. Stanley bade farewell to Livingstone March 14, 1872; it waswith much regret that he did so, for although their acquaint-ance had been but four months in duration, it had been so in-timate, and he had learned so to revere and love the elderman that it was as if he were leaving the tried friend of manyyears. Livingstone committed to Stanleys care his journal, proper-ly sealed, and many papers and letters. The box containingthese precious documents was of course most jealously guard-ed ; but on one occasion it was run into danger. The caravanhad arrived at the banks of the Mukondokwa Eiver. It hadrained the whole night, and the morning brought no after mile they traversed, over fields covered by the in-undation, until they came to a branch river-side once again,where the river was narrow, and too deep to ford in the mid-dle. They proceeded to cut a tree down, and so contrived thatit should fall right across the stream. Over this fallen tree,. HOW STANLEY FOUND LIVINGSTONE. 479 the men, bestriding it, cautiously moved before them theirbales and boxes; but one young fellow, Rojab, through over-zeal, or in sheer madness, took up the doctors box which con-tained his letters and Journal of his discoveries on his head,and started into the river. Stanley had been the first to ar-rive on the opposite bank, in order to superintend the cross-ing, when he caught sight of this man walking in the riverwith the most precious box of all upon his head. Suddenlyhe fell into a deep hole, and the man and box went almost outof sight, while the white man was in an agony at the fate thatthreatened the dispatches. Fortunately, he recovered himselfand stood up, while Stanley shouted tojiim, with a loaded re-volver pointed at his head: ** Look out! Drop that box and Ill shoot you!All the men halted in their w
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