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Willis Fletcher Johnson. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa
Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa
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PREFACE
CHAPTER I. HENRY M. STANLEY
CHAPTER II. DESCRIPTION OF AFRICA
CHAPTER III. STANLEY'S SEARCH FOR LIVINGSTONE
CHAPTER IV. WILD EXPERIENCES
CHAPTER V. TRIALS BY THE WAY
CHAPTER VI. ADVENTURES IN GREAT VARIETY
CHAPTER VII. THE END APPROACHES
CHAPTER VIII. STANLEY MEETS LIVINGSTONE
CHAPTER IX. STANLEY'S HOMEWARD MARCH
CHAPTER X. STANLEY'S MAIN EXPEDITION
CHAPTER XI. PRESSING TOWARDS THE INTERIOR
CHAPTER XII. EXPLORATION OF THE VICTORIA NYANZA
CHAPTER XIII. EXPLORATION OF THE VICTORIA NYANZA
CHAPTER XIV. EXPLORATION OF THE VICTORIA NYANZA
CHAPTER XV. AN INTERVAL OF REST
CHAPTER XVI. PREPARATIONS FOR FURTHER EXPLORATIONS
CHAPTER XVII. THE EXPEDITION TO ALBERT NYANZA
CHAPTER XVIII. EXPLORATIONS OF LAKE TANGANIKA
CHAPTER XIX. NYANGWE AND ITS HISTORY
CHAPTER XX. ORGANIZING A NEW EXPEDITION
CHAPTER XXI. THROUGH THE FORESTS
CHAPTER XXII. FLOATING DOWN THE CONGO
CHAPTER XXIII. DESCENT OF THE CONGO
CHAPTER XXIV. AMONG THE CATARACTS
CHAPTER XXV. EXPERIENCES BY THE WAY
CHAPTER XXVI. DEATH OF FRANK POCOKE
CHAPTER XXVII. THE COMPLETED WORK
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE FRUITS OF VICTORY
CHAPTER XXIX. THE CONGO FREE STATE
CHAPTER XXX. EMIN, THE LAST OF THE SOUDAN HEROES
CHAPTER XXXI. STANLEY TO THE RESCUE
CHAPTER XXXII. STANLEY AND EMIN
CHAPTER XXXIII. IN THE HEART OF AFRICA
CHAPTER XXXIV. FORWARD MARCH!
CHAPTER XXXV. AT THE COAST AT LAST
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Willis Fletcher Johnson, Joel Tyler Headley
A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent
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All there was of civilization in the world was found at one time in Africa. Art and science had their home there, while now as a whole it is regarded as the most benighted and barbarous portion of the earth and is, not inaptly, called "the dark continent." With a breadth at the equator of four thousand five hundred miles, with the exception of thin lines of sea-coast on each side, this vast space has been as much unknown as the surface of a distant planet. The Barbary States and Egypt on the Mediterranean and Red Seas, some Portuguese settlements on the Indian Ocean, the English and Dutch colonies of South Africa, a few trading ports and the English and American colonies in Guinea, constituted Africa, so far as the knowledge of the civilized world went. And yet within these outer rims lay real Africa, and there lived its immense population.
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