Henry Stanley Articles

"There is only one remedy for these wholesale devastations of African aborigines, and that is the solemn combination of England, Germany, France, Portugal, South and East Africa, and Congo State against the introduction of gunpowder into any part of the Continent except for the use of their own agents, soldiers, and employees; or seizing upon every tusk of ivory brought out, as there is not a single piece nowadays which has been gained lawfully.

"Every tusk, piece, and scrap in the possession of an Arab trader has been steeped and dyed in blood. Every pound weight has cost the life of a man, woman, or child; for every five pounds a hut has been burned; for every two tusks a whole village has been destroyed; every twenty tusks have been obtained at the price of a district, with all its people, villages, and plantations.

"It is simply incredible that because ivory is required for ornaments or billiard games, the rich heart of Africa should be laid waste at this late year of the nineteenth century, signalized as it has been by so much advance; that populations, tribes, and nations should be utterly destroyed. Whom, after all, does this bloody seizure of ivory enrich? Only a few dozens of half-castes, Arab and Negro, who, if due justice were dealt to them, should be made to sweat out the remainder of their piratical lives in the severest penal servitude."

The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (II)
Scribner's/May, 1890

1872 cont'd

The Road to Ujiji
Starting from Kwihara—
A Plunge Into the Wilderness
New York Herald/August 10, 1872

Livingstone’s Nile:
Graphic Description of the
Great Explorer Sketched at Ujiji
New York Herald/August 15, 1872

1873

Four Great African Travelers

Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton

Century Magazine/May, 1873

Captains Speke and Grant

Century Magazine/May, 1873

Sir Samuel and Lady Baker

Century Magazine/May, 1873

1874

Sailing the Coast from Zanzibar

New York Herald/December 2, 1874

Friendly Encounter on the Rufiji River

New York Herald/December 3, 1874

The Country of the Hippopotamus

and the Crocodile

New York Herald/December 4, 1874

Manifold Preparations at Zanzibar
for the Great Journey
New York Herald/December 24, 1874

All About Zanzibar, Once the Seat of the Slave Trade, Now a Center for Progress
New York Herald/December 26, 1874

1875

Stanley's March in Africa

New York Herald/March 1, 1875

Horrors of Hunger and Thirst

New York Herald/October 11, 1875

The Dead White Men

New York Herald/October 11, 1875

Among the Hippopotami

New York Herald/October 12, 1875

Exploration of the Victoria Nyanza

New York Herald/November 29, 1875

The American Christian

Tumbles Islamism to the Ground