3-078-051 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, Monday, May 5, in the Royal Albert Hall; Mr. Stanley speaking, 1890. Lecture by '...the distinguished African traveller and explorer, Mr. H. M. Stanley, leader of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition...the vast building was filled by more than seven thousand persons...Mr. Stanley...wore the Congo star and sash, was warmly greeted by the Prince of Wales...Overhead...was stretched an enormous map delineating Central Africa, from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, and conspicuously marked by a large green patch, indicating the great forest of which Mr. Stanley has given such graphic descriptions...Mr. Stanley...on rising, was enthusiastically applauded. His romantic descriptions of the great Forest of the Congo (as it is called on the map), of the Mombuttu race of pigmies, of the Albert Edward Nyanza, and of the Ruwenzori mountain range, with references to Homer, Herodotus, and the ancient Greek and Arab geographers, were the chief features of the lecture, which lasted about an hour. Then the Prince of Wales, in a few sentences which showed how carefully his Royal Highness had followed the lecture, moved a vote of thanks, which was seconded by the Duke of Edinburgh, and was carried by acclamation'. "Illustrated London News", 1890.