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

1876 cont'd

A Beautiful People
and Their Mountaintop Fortress
New York Herald/August 11, 1876

On the Kagera River
New York Herald/August 11, 1876

Last Letter from the Heart of Africa

New York Herald/August 12, 1876

1890

The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (I)
Scribner's/June, 1890

The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (II)

Scribner's/June, 1890

1891

The Pigmies of the Great African Forest
Scribner's/January, 1891

1893

Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa
Harpers Monthly/March, 1893

The Legend of the Elephant and the Lion
McClure's Magazine/September, 1893

1896

The Story of the Development of Africa
Century Magazine/February, 1896

1897

Twenty-Five Years' Progress
in Equatorial Africa
Atlantic Monthly/October, 1897

1898

For Life and Liberty: An Exciting Adventure on the Victoria Nyanza
Youth's Companion, 1898

My First Fight in the Jungle
Ladies' Home Journal/January, 1898

1900

The Origin of the Negro Race
The North American Review/May, 1900

How I Acted the Missionary and
What Came of it
Youth's Companion/1900

1902

The New Aspirants for African Fame and

What They Must Be
Fortnightly Review/November 1, 1902

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