KING OF THE BELGIANS,
Sovereign of the Congo State.
Mr. Burdett-Coutts, the President of the Company, proposed the health of Stanley; and, on motion, it was directed that the greetings of the Company should be despatched to the hero at Zanzibar.
The message despatched by Mr. Burdett-Coutts to Zanzibar was as follows:
Turners’ Company, at their annual dinner with the Lord Mayor and other old friends of yours, after listening to the full and gracious telegram with respect to yourself from the King of the Belgians, have just drank your health with stirring enthusiasm, and congratulated you on your splendid achievement, and send you a hearty welcome home.
BURDETT-COUTTS, Master.
Royal Geographical Society of Antwerp,
Under the Patronage of
H. M. the King of the Belgians.
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Antwerp, November 25, 1889.
To the Proprietor of the New York “Herald,” New York.
Sir:—While the civilized world was in suspense over the fate of the two illustrious travellers lost in Africa, Henry Stanley and Emin Pasha (Schnitzler); while governments, exhausting their forces in sterile struggles for the conquest of lands on the African coast, were showing themselves powerless to carry succor to these valiant missionaries of civilization, the New York “Herald,” true to the glory it acquired in rescuing the illustrious and unfortunate Livingstone, did not hesitate to organize a new expedition in aid of Stanley and Emin. On learning the welcome news a joyful cry was uttered by all friends of African civilization, and loudly re-echoed in the midst of our Society.