by Austin Sprake:
The famous explorer.
by Geoffrey Godden:
Henry Morton Stanley, whose original surname was Rowlands, was born in Wales in June 1841.
After a difficult childhood, he sailed for America as a cabin-boy in 1859 and later served in the Confederate army and in the United States Navy.
He became a writer, travelling far to gather first-hand stories, and was a correspondent for the Missouri Democrat and the New York Herald.
H. M. Stanley is mainly known today for his discovery of the lost African explorer David Livingstone in 1871.
Stanley himself later explored Africa, continuing Livingstone's good work, making three trips in all to the then unknown interior.
In 1890 he returned to England. Later he lectured in America as well as in Australia and New Zealand. He was the author of several books on his travels, and he entered Parliament in 1895.
He died in London in May 1904.
The very rare silk portrait of this famous journalist-explorer is shown above the crossed national flags of Great Britain and the United States of America.
The title was first included in a Stevens advertisement published in May 1887 and occurs on label 22+17+2 (an example of which, in my own [that is Godden's] collection, is dated August 1887).
Specimens are affixed to type C2 card-mounts.
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