CHAPTER VI.

HENRY MORLAND STANLEY.

HIS NATIVITY -- EARLY LIFE -- COMES TO AMERICA -- HIS ADOPTION BY A NEW ORLEANS MERCHANT -- HIS CAREER DURING THE CIVIL WAR -- BECOMES A CORRESPONDENT OF THE NEW YORK “HERALD” -- SAILS FOR THE ISLAND OF CRETE TO ENLIST IN THE CAUSE OF THE CRETANS, THEN AT WAR -- BUT CHANGES HIS MIND ON ARRIVING THERE -- INSTEAD UNDERTAKES A JOURNEY THROUGH ASIA MINOR, THE PROVINCES OF RUSSIAN ASIA, ETC. -- ATTACKED AND PLUNDERED BY TURKISH BRIGANDS -- RELIEVED BY HON. E. JOY MORRIS, THE AMERICAN MINISTER -- GOES TO EGYPT -- TO ABYSSINIA -- REMARKABLE SUCCESS THERE -- HIS SUDDEN CALL TO PARIS FROM MADRID BY MR. BENNETT, OF THE “HERALD” -- ACCOUNT OF THE INTERVIEW -- MR. STANLEY GOES TO FIND LIVINGSTONE IN COMMAND OF THE “HERALD” LIVINGSTONE EXPEDITION 95