"Hurra!" said Stanley; "this must be Living

stone."

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He determined to hasten forward at all hazards. The caravan arrived on the 8th of November at the Rugufu River, at which point they could distinctly hear the thunders from the mysterious torrents which rolled into the hollow recesses of Kabogo Mountain on the farther side of Lake Tanganyika. This noise gave Stanley the heartiest joy, because he knew that he was only forty-six miles from Ujiji, and possibly Livingstone.

About midday on the 9th of November, they reached a beautiful series of valleys, where wild fruit-trees grew, and rare flowers blossomed. On this day they caught sight of the hills from which Lake Tanganyika could be seen. Stanley ordered his boy, Selim, to brush up his tattered traveling suits, that he might make as good an appearance as possible.

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On the two hundred and thirty-sixth day from Bagamoyo, and the fifty-first day from Unyanyembe, they saw Lake Tanganyika spread out before them, and around it the great blue-black mountains of Ugoma and Ukaramba.N It was an immense broad sheet-a burnished bed of silver-a lucid canopy of blue above, lofty mountains for its valances, and palm forests for its fringes. Descending the western slope of the mountain, the port of Ujiji lay below, embowered in palms.

"Unfurl your flags and load your guns!" cried Stanley.

"Yes, yes!" eagerly responded the men.

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One, two, three!" and a volley from fifty muskets woke up the peaceful village below. The Amer

ican flag was raised aloft once more; the men stepped out bravely as the crowds of villagers came flocking around them.

Suddenly Stanley heard a voice on his right say in English, "Good morning, sir.” A black man dressed in a long white shirt, announced himself as "Susi," the servant of Dr. Livingstone.

"What! Is Dr. Livingstone here?"

“Yes, sir.”

"In the village?"

"Yes, sir."

"Are you sure?"

"Sure, sure, sir. Why, I left him just now."

Then another servant introduced himself; the crowds flocked around anew; and finally, at the head of his caravan, Stanley found himself before a semicircle of Arab magnates, in front of whom stood an old white man, with a gray beard.

As Stanley advanced toward him, he noticed that he was pale, looked wearied, had on his head a bluish cap, with a faded gold band around it, a red-sleeved waistcoat, and a pair of gray tweed trousers. He walked to him, took off his hat, and said, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume."

"Yes,' said he, with a smile, lifting his cap slightly.

Then they clasped hands, and after the necessary formalities with the Arab magnates, Stanley explained himself and his mission.

It was a great day for the old explorer. There were letters from his children. "Ah!" he said patiently, “I have waited years for letters." And you may picture for yourselves that strangely met pair, seated in the explorer's house, Livingstone hearing

for the first time of the great changes in Europe.

They sat long together, with their faces turned eastward, noting the dark shadows creeping up above the groves of palms beyond the village, and the rampart of mountains; listening to the sonorous thunder of the surf of Tanganyika, and to the dreamy chorus which the night insects sang.

Mr. Stanley remained four months in the company of Dr. Livingstone, during which time an intimate and rich friendship grew up between the two men. From November 10, 1871, until March 14, 1872, they were together daily. Dr. Livingstone had been in Africa since March, 1866. He left Zanzibar in April of that year for the interior, with thirty men, and worked studiously at his high mission of correcting the errors of former travelers until early in 1869, when he arrived at Ujiji and took a brief rest.

He had been deserted in the most cowardly manner by the majority of his followers, and was much of the time in want. At the end of June, 1869, he went on to a lake into which the LualabaN ran, and then was compelled to return the weary distance of seven hundred miles to Ujiji. The magnificent result of his labors, both in the interest of science and humanity, are now known to all the world.

Livingstone returned with Stanley to Unyanyembe, and on the 14th of March the two men parted, not without tears. It was not until sunset on the 6th of May, that the worn and fatigued Stanley re-entered Bagamoyo. The next morning he crossed to Zanzibar, and thence as soon as pos

sible departed for Europe with his precious freight— the Livingstone journals and letters, and his own rich experience.

EDWARD KING.

Biography. - David Livingstone, the famous African traveler and missionary, was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, in 1813, and Idied in the wilds of Africa in 1873.

Dr. Livingstone's travels extended over nearly one-third of the African continent, and his written accounts of them form highly instructive and interesting works. The importance of the discoveries made during the thirty years of his life in Africa can not be overestimated. One result of his labors was the agitation of the subject of the African slave trade and its eventual suppression.

In 1871, Henry M. Stanley was selected by Mr. James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of "The New York Herald," to undertake the arduous task of finding Dr. Livingstone, of whom no tidings had been received for five years.

Stanley was entirely successful in his search, and succeeded both in finding and relieving Dr. Livingstone at a time when he was most in need.

Stanley gained at once an enviable reputation as a traveler and explorer, and in 1876, some years after Livingstone's death, succeeded in penetrating and crossing the African continent. The particulars in regard to this wonderful exploit were published by Stanley in that remarkable book-"Through the Dark Continent." His record of discovery has created such intense interest in what was before an unpopular field for travelers, that many other bold adventurers have since chosen "The Dark Continent" as the scene of their labors.

Notes.- O'man is a strip of territory lying at the most eastern extremity of Arabia.

Ujiji is a town situated on Lake Tän gän yï'kä.

Un yän yem' be is a province near the eastern shore of tropical Africa.

Bä gä mo'yō is a sea-port on the Indian Ocean.

Other geographical names in the lesson are pronounced as follows: Tä bō'rä, Mä rä' rä, Mä lä gä rä ́zï, Ru gu'fu, Kä bō'gō, U go'mä, U kä räm'bä, Lu ä lä'bä.

Language. What is the meaning of "Bravely dressed" and of "A leafy ocean"?

Composition. -Select six prominent events described in the lesson and unite them in the form of a complete analysis of the lesson,

42. TYPHOONS AND WATER-SPOUTS.

sub sīd'ing, falling; becoming

quiet.

năv'i gāte, sail. ab'so lute, total.

çy lĩn'drie al, having the form of a cylinder.

a bātes', grows less; subsides.

per pen die' ū lar, exactly up

right; at right angles with.

re võlving, rolling.

es teemed', valued.

phe nŏm'e na, strange or unusual things.

măr'i ner, a sailor or seaman.

The ships that navigate the Indian Ocean have occasionally to encounter those terrific tempests called typhoons, which are peculiar to those seas, and which, with the hurricanes of the opposite hemisphere, are the most furious storms that blow.

They rise with fearful rapidity, often coming on suddenly with a calm; and before the canvas can be secured, the gale is howling shrilly through the spars and rigging, and the crests of the waves are torn off, and driven in sheets of spray across the decks.

The lightning is terrible; at very short intervals the whole space between heaven and earth is filled with vivid flame, showing every rope and spar in the darkest night as distinctly as in the broadest sunshine, and then leaving the sight obscured in pitchy darkness for several seconds after each flash; -darkness the most intense and absolute; not that of the night, but the effect of the blinding glare upon the eye.

The thunder, too, peals, now in loud, sharp, startling explosions, now in long muttered growls, all around the horizon. In the height of the gale, curious electrical lights, called St. Elmo's fires, are