MARK TWAIN'S LAST TRAVELS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1414, 11 February 1873, Page 4

MARK TWAIN'S LAST TRAVELS.

At the Whitefrir *s Club (a literary institutionX Mr Hood, son of the great humorist, recently introduced Mark Twain, who, in responding to a toast, said :— " I ara preud, very proud, that it was reserved for me to find Dr Livingstone, and for Mr Stanley to get all the credit. (Laughter.) I hunted for that man in Africa all over seventy-jive or one hundred parishes, thousands and thousands of miles in the wilds of the deserts, all over the place, sometimes riding negroes, and sometimes travelling by rail. I didn't mind the rail or anything else, so that I didn't come in for the tar and feathers. I found that man at Ujiji — a place you may remember if you have ever been there— and it was a very great satisfaction that I found him just in the nick of. time. T found that poor old mau d'«j. serted by his niggers and by his geogjan phers, deserted by all of his kind ex.«*pt the gorillas — dejected, miserable, famishing, absolutely famishing ; but be- was eloquent. Just as I had found him he had eaten his last elephant, and he said to me, "God knows where X shall get another." He had nothing to wear except his venerable and honorable naval suit, and nothing to eat but his diary. But I said to him, "It's all right ; I have discovered you, and Stanley will be here by the four o'clock train, and will discover yon officially, and then we will turn to and have a regular good time.' I said, Cheer up, for Stanley has got corn, ammunition, glass beads, hymn books, whiskey, and everything which the heart can desire ; he has got all sorts of valuSffi 1 ? i ? in S tele 8 ra P n P°les, and afew cartloads of money. By this time comSwßS^i? -? M ? de With the lands of Bibles and civilisation, and property willadvance.' And then B ur?eyK and other places, to Unyj»ysjn$ c . I'men-

tion these names simply for your edification, nothing more ; do not expect — particularly as intelligence to the Ensjl'sh/ Geographical Society. (Roars of laughter.) And then, having filled up the old man, we were all too full for utteranca and departed."