I am not of a demonstrative turn; as cold, indeed, as we islanders are usually reputed to be, but this disinterested kindness of Mr.Bennett, so nobly carried into effect by Mr.Stanley, was simply overwhelming.

I really do feel extremely grateful, and at the same time I am a little ashamed at not being more worthy of the generosity.

Mr.Stanley has done his part with untiring energy; good judgment in the teeth of very serious obstacles.

His helpmates turned out depraved blackguards, who, by their excesses at Zanzibar and elsewhere, had ruined their constitutions, and prepared their systems to be fit provender for the grave.

They had used up their strength by wickedness, and were of next to no service, but rather downdrafts and unbearable drags to progress.
_16th November, 1871._--As Tanganyika explorations are said by Mr.
Stanley to be an object of interest to Sir Roderick, we go at his expense and by his men to the north of the Lake.
[Dr.Livingstone on a previous occasion wrote from the interior of Africa to the effect that Lake Tanganyika poured its waters into the Albert Nyanza Lake of Baker.