Stanley and Livingstone Page #7

I am sure he will be

most grateful. Thank You.

- Henry M. Stanley?

- Looks like there is someone to meet you son.

She must have got my cablegram

Are you Mr. Stanley?

- Yes.

- Cablegram for you.

- Thank you.

There she is. Come on.

Gentlemen I will give you my

story later. Here talk to Mr. Jeff.

Jeff! Look after the baggage.

Eve.. I beg your pardon

I mean Miss Kingsley.

I beg your pardon old

man. You mean Mrs. Tyce.

Congratulations! I knew you would do it.

- Thanks.

- What have you done about your luggage?

- Jeff's looking at it.

You get inside and talk

to Eve I will help him.

We are putting you up here you know.

- Well I am glad to see you back.

- I am glad to be back.

How stupid of me.. I forgot

to congratulate Garreth.

Well then congratulate me.

- I wish you all the happiness in the world.

- Are you going to be in England long?

- No. Just long enough to take care some business.

For Doctor Livingstone

- Oh you say that so casually.

Isn't it the most wonderful thing

that ever happened, finding him.

But Garreth and I were

sure that you wouldn't fail.

I had help. At times

when I nearly turned back.

Something, I can't

explain you what it was.

Something kept me going ahead. It was

an inspiration that never failed me.

You have changed. I was wondering what is

it about you, that reminded me of someone

Now I know who it is.

Its doctor Livingstone.

Doctor Livingstone?

- Yes.

You have that same look about you.

No I am afraid that you are

imagining things. I haven't changed.

I am still a reporter waiting

for his next assignment.

Let me handle this. There is nothing I enjoy

more than a whack at the seats of mighty.

- Sir Oliver! - Yes! Oh Yes!

Tyce.. - Forgive me for intruding Sir!

But I feel that this is

truly a historic moment.

Sir Oliver French, I have the great honor

to present the man who found Dr. Livingstone.

- Mr. Stanley I presume.

- Yes Sir! I am Stanley.

Mr. Stanley, this is Mr. Veil.

- How do you do sir!

Permit me to congratulate you upon

your incredible accomplishment.

Incredible perhaps, but

none the less accomplished.

If we seem a bit hesitant to accept Mr.

Stanley's story in face value, please don't...

- I know you want the proof. Mr. Stanley has it.

- Has he?

-Mr. Stanley!

- Lord Tyce!

Did I understand that my son to say that

you have proof that you found Dr. Livingstone?

Yes Sir. I have the documents here.

Dr. Livingstone instructed

me to give you these Sir.

- An imposing mass of evidence I must say.

- If it was compiled by Dr. Livingstone.

-Oh father, for heavens

sake be reasonable.

- I be glad to accept the judgment of the society.

- Well nothing can be fairer than that.

Very well Mr. Stanley. I will appoint

a committee to examine these documents

And instruct them to make their reports

at our next general meeting at Brighton.

-Thank you Sir.

- I am certain that the meeting will be

Long remembered by all of us.

- I am certain it will.

and I have here one of the letters Dr. Livingstone

have supposed to entrust to Mr. Stanley

and here is a letter which I personally know

was written by Dr. Livingstone some 15 yrs ago

when he was in England. I have carefully

compared and in all honesty I cannot conclude

that they were written by the same hand.

Would you say Mr. Kringsten that they

were written by two different hands?

Yes. I should say so.

But can't we assume that the trembling

hand of an old man, wracked with fever

would produce a different character of

writing than composed by a man in his prime.

as Dr. Livingstone was 15 years ago.

- That's an assumption Sir. Not proof.

And now gentlemen the maps which Mr.

Stanley claims, were drawn by Dr. Livingstone

have been examined by the expert

Cartographer Mr. Fredric Holkham.

As to the other maps of this unexplored

territory and of which to compare these

Naturally I cannot

accept them as correct.

Mr. Chairman!... - Mr. Kingsley!

- By the same reasoning

Mr. Holkham could not possibly have

accepted the maps of Christopher Columbus.

Isn't it true Mr. Holkham that

those maps could have been drawn

as well or as poorly by a child who

have never been 10 miles from London?

That's putting it rather

strongly Lord Tyce.

Would you say that the rivers and mountains

so generously indicated on those maps.

might not exist outside of

Mr. Stanley's imagination?

No I shouldn't care put myself in position saying

they are purely pigment of Stanley's imagination.

But there is 1 point of fact, or of error that

should certainly cause us to question these records.

Here is a river called the Lualava

river indicated as flowing North

and being the true source of

Nile. And further gentlemen...

Indicated as being at an elevation of

2000 ft above sea level.... 2000 feet!

As we all know our eminent colleague Mr. Hantton

measured the elevation of the Nile as 2169 ft.

Therefore it seems that if we

are to believe these records

that we must also believe, that water

could flow over 700 miles uphill.

Dr. Livingstone indicated the Lualava as

possible and not the actual source of the Nile.

The word possible Mr. Stanley

does not appear on the maps.

Dr. Livingstone said it was possible

That it is not the Nile but the Congo.

And as to that Mr. Stanley, even an elementary

knowledge of Geography should tell you

That the Congo flows not North but West.

Mr. Chairman, assuming that anybody found

Anybody, is it not likely that Stanley

Did not discover Livingstone but

that Livingstone discovered Stanley.

It must be obvious to even

the most gullible of us

that Mr. Stanley has attempted

to make this honorable gathering

The victim of a colossal fraud.

You ought to know about

fraud you old Rhinosausarus.

It was my privilege to spend some

time with Mr. Stanley at Zanzibar.

where I gone to meet my son, who courageously

led, a bona-fide expedition to find Dr. Livingstone.

When I told Mr. Stanley that Dr. Livingstone

was dead, he refused to believe me.

Why I ask you. Why?

Because it wasn't true.

Wasn't it because that 'The London Globe'

had stolen a march on the 'New York Herald'.

or is it because Mr. Stanley had come 11,000

miles for a story and couldn't find one.

Gentlemen. Among unscrupulous publishers, the

method is as old as a newspaper business itself

If you can't find a story, you hide yourself

away with pen and paper and you make one.

I have before me a copy of 'New York

Herald'. With your kind indulgence

I will read a small portion of

an editorial appearing in it.

.. And I intend to continue making news while

my competitors sit around waiting it to happen.

That editorial gentlemen is signed by Mr. James

Gordon Bennet, publisher of the 'New York Herald'.

An employer of Mr. Henry. M. Stanley.

Do you have anything further to say Mr. Stanley?

Before this meeting votes on your report.

- Go on. Get up and give it to them.

- You must please.

Mr. Chairman. And I feel that I

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