Excerpt from The History of the Last Quarter-Century in the United States, 1870-1895, Vol. 2 The royal enterprise was advertised to the world mainly by the labors of Henry M. Stanley. Born in 1841, near Denbigh, Wales, Where he was known as John Rowlands, from three years of age to thirteen the lad lived and was schooled inside St. Asaph Poor - house. He later ascribed all his success to the education here received. When sixteen he Shipped for New Orleans, where he found a foster-father in a trader named Stanley, whose name he assumed and henceforth bore. At the outbreak Of the civil war his energy took a military turn, and the man who was later reverenced by the Congo blacks as Father and Mother of the Country, enlisted on the pro slavery Side. He was taken prisoner, escaped at night by swim ming a river amid a storm of bullets, and made for Wales, but not to stay. Returning, he enlisted once more, this time in the Federal navy, acting presently as ensign on the flagship Ticonderoga. Peace restored, the path of a newspaper corre spondent in wild and distant lands attracted the bold fellow and we find him by turns in Spain, Turkey and Syria. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.