Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: York Herald, afterwards our Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to China, Judge Philip H. Morgan of the Mixed Tribunals of Egypt, afterwards Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico, Judge Barringer, also of the Mixed Tribunals, Commander Robeson, and other officers of the Vandalia and Mr. Stanley. General Grant had never before met Mr. Stanley. He was much interested in his conversation. Among the toasts given was one in honor of the distinguished explorer, to which he replied at some length. After dinner all except the General, Judge Morgan, Mr. Young, Mr. Stanley and myself, went into the ball room where dancing had commenced. We remained at the table. The conversation turned upon the discoveries in Central Africa in which we were all intensely interested. Mr. Stanley told of his visit to Emperor Mtesa, whose capital was near the northwestern shore of Victoria Nyanza with whom he remained nearly two months and in whose dominions he had remained for nearly a year. He was Chief of Chiefs of a large number of tribes and could muster when occasion required an army of 250,000. Mr. Stanley had learned enough of the language of these people to be able to talk with them. He had also the services of two interpreters acquainted with the language, one whom he brought withfebá ? -miï / ...... / -. ., ra.-l . - him, the other from Abyssinia employed by Mtesa. He was therefore able to obtain much information relative to the people and the country, to learn the traditional history of a line of thirty- five kings, covering a period of a thousand years. Later in the evening, General Grant attended the reception where a large number of those present were presented to him. He then retired and with the officers and others who accompanied him returned to the...