STANLEY THE EXPLORER.

Kumara Times, Issue 470, 29 March 1878, Page 2

STANLEY THE EXPLORER.

The great African explorer, says an English paper received by the mail,-has arrived in London, and has met .with k warm reception. At Folkestone where he landed, the little dkidc skinned loan, with his high cheekbone*, grizzled locks, and bent, sHtivelled' received with cheers sand munipi|>aLaddress from the Mayor and Coporatuin—a thoroughly l 'British welcome. At Chart again, he was l»udly cheered, and ne lias since‘bekA ' lodine by the Geographical Society, and g) ye them an of bis; proceedings! But although he has done great ’service to civilisation- iri country in particular, by his discovery of the sources and course of mtPflongo, fie. is ,at. this „Hjjomeis rather ' undera cloud, it waßjg,j|espfcratß’ eUtelfuiMe; of course, and he carried his; life often in bis Sh fear that more bipod was .shed than was required simptylw self-defence! In plain English, bis. whole hid bwp letters are to be believed, was stained with butchery for urgency of supplying Ojcopy” tp; the rpppers he, represented can hardly be pleaded< as sufficient,justification. These arp tfie rumours that obtained credence! more or less* and it is to silence" them, ootu clusiyely,.or establish; the case against himself, that the Geograjihical Society have asked him tpkpeak in full.