Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1878 — Stanley’s Personnel. [ARTICLE]

Stanley’s Personnel.

Mr. Henry M. Stanley, since his return from Africa, has been described as a man slightly bent under a burden of memories of fevers aud cramps; with a boyish face, crowned with a shock of iron-gray hair, in curious contrast of effect with the black mustache ; with high cheek bones, a tanned skin, and the hands of a backwoodsman, roughened by cutting a way through forest and jungle, and carrying an elephant rifle firing a two-ounce ball. When he reached the ocean from the African interior he was so emaciated that he weighed only 119 pounds. In fifteen days thereafter he gained half a pound a day, and his sea voyage almost completely restored his health. From the moment he entered the African continent on one side, until he emerged from it on the other, he never received a letter nor a newspaper, nor heard a syllable of what was going on in the world. Mr. Stanley’s expedition is said to have cost $115,000, the expenses being divided equally between the New York Herald and the London Telegraph.