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At a Complimentary Dinner, tendered 
 by the Washington Correspondents to 
 Mr. Henry M. Stanley, at Willard's 
 Hotel, Washington, January 11th, 1873, 
 Mr. Shortfellow arose and remarked as 
 follows : 
 
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 I. 
 
 Though Speke and Grant, and Burton, 
 
 And geographic savants, 
 
 Of the European nations, 
 
 Held opinions geographic 
 
 In regard to Ethiopia; 
 
 It remained for Yankee Doodle 
 
 To launch the ship of science 
 
 Into rivers unexplored, — 
 
 To sustain our reputation 
 
 For wonderful achievements, 
 
 By surveying fields unheard of, 
 
 To find Livingstone the Cynic, 
 
 And give the world of learning 
 
 The truths he held concealed. 
 
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 II. 
 
 The enterprise of Yankees 
 Was quite distinctly evidenced 
 Among the correspondents, 
 Whose toils for daily journals, 
 Have kept the world advised 
 Of incidents occurring. 
 It fell the lot of newsmen 
 To yield a shining pliead 
 From out their constellation, 
 To undertake the mission 
 Of reaching the explorer, 
 Livingstone, the great explorer, 
 To determine by his travels 
 The sources of the Nile. 
 
III. 
 
 And Stanley was selected, 
 
 Stanley of the Herald, 
 
 Commissionaire to Abyssinia, 
 
 To Grondar and to Kobbo. 
 
 He went to Zanzibar, Buboopoo, 
 
 To Kakoni and Kwaly, 
 
 On a voyage to Ujiji. 
 
 A hundred days at Bagamoyo, 
 
 Catching snappers at Kingani, 
 
 Drinking wine at Bagamoyo, 
 
 With a priest named Charley Hertzog, 
 
 (A Frenchman by persuasion, 
 
 And a hunkey-dora fellow,) 
 
 Caused delay enough for starting. 
 
IV. 
 
 All prepared for active service 
 
 In the glorious expedition, 
 
 With instructions from Sheikh Hassid, 
 
 (A man of sense and shekels,) 
 
 His equipment was selected 
 
 For a trip to Tanganika. 
 
 He had l>lue and yellow beads, 
 
 Had muslin Merikana, 
 
 Had trinkets for the chieftains, 
 
 And trinkets for princesses 
 
 Doti, dowa, ghulabio, 
 
 Hafde, bubu, kadunguru, 
 
 Fundo, honga, ismahili, 
 
 Shash and Sungomazzi, 
 
 For the limber legged heathen, 
 
 For the diwan, manyapara, 
 
 Or a present to the king. 
 
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 V. 
 
 Captain Bombay, Farquahar, Esau, 
 
 Shaw, and many " lialf-caste moslems ," 
 
 With a number of Askari, 
 
 Formed the Herald expedition 
 
 Which saluted Magnus Diwan, 
 
 The great Xmauin of Muscat, 
 
 And saluted Charley Hertzog 
 
 At his home in Bagamoyo, 
 
 On their way to Unyanyembe. 
 
 The scenery round Ugogo, 
 
 And the beauteous Ukweie, 
 
 And the forests of Udore, 
 
 And the forests of Ukami, 
 
 The wilds of Usagora 
 
 And Ugogo to Kanyenye, 
 
 Are beyond our comprehension, 
 
 Unless we follow closely 
 
 The details brought by Stanley 
 
 And sold us by subscription 
 
 In a larsre octavo volume. 
 
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 VI 
 
 The trees of Afric's forest 
 
 Are the grandest sights of nature. 
 
 The Syenite and granite 
 
 Ivory, Copal, orchilla, 
 
 Alligators, flies and insects, 
 
 Snakes and prickly briars, 
 
 Fell elephantiasis, 
 
 Bloodthirsty, lazy Arabs, 
 
 Treacherous Taborans 
 
 And disorders all climatic 
 
 Encourage emigration. 
 
 And valuable information 
 
 In his eloquent description 
 
 Is furnished rather freely 
 
 For the Bureau of Statistics. 
 
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 VII. 
 
 At the town of Unyanyeinbe, 
 Men and women gathered, 
 Men in nightgowns, knives and turbans, 
 Children, sucking dusky nipples, 
 Led by Diwan Seyd-ben-Salim, 
 Welcomed him to Unyanyembe ; 
 Gave him news of the explorer, 
 Gave him plenteous herbs of Assam, 
 Curried chicken, rice and slapjacks, 
 Chowder made of alligator, 
 Monkey chops and kangaroo. 
 Then came rows of humpbacked oxen,, 
 Bringing paw-paw and pomegranate, 
 And the magnates from Tabora, 
 With their wierd congratulations, 
 Chanting Afghanistan music. 
 
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 VIII. 
 
 A big Arab from Ujoweh, 
 A chieftain named Mirambo, 
 A chronic sort of growler, 
 And a technical dissenter, 
 Came to tell of his successes 
 Over princes and princesses. 
 He'd cased his belli and Arabs, 
 And determined was to plunder, 
 All caravans of Arabs 
 Passing that way to Ujiji. 
 The word of battle given, 
 Stanley busted this sardine. 
 
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 IX. 
 
 Near the town of Simbamwenni, 
 In the province of Udore, 
 Far from Bliss' Cundurango, 
 Near the home of Kisabeng-o, 
 Kisabengo the Kidnapper, 
 Stanley took the Mukurungu, 
 Or Miasmatic fever. 
 
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 X, 
 
 How it parched his epidermis ! 
 
 Crept along his spinal column, 
 
 And cerebro- spinal axis 
 
 To his lumbar plexus ! 
 
 Racked his brain with convolutions, 
 
 Through medulla oblongata, 
 
 From Cerebrum to Cerebellum. 
 
 And primal, second, tertian, quartian, 
 
 Cerebro-spinai-meningitis, 
 
 Had possession of his system. 
 
 He took a tilt with fearful jim-jams, 
 
 Horrible Phantasmagoria ; 
 
 His body twitched from head to foot 
 
 With violent exacerbation, 
 
 And his troubled soul, in anguish driven, 
 
 Underwent metempsychosis. 
 
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 Then a fearful dysenteria 
 
 (Like a long debate in Congress, 
 
 And thinner than its substance,) 
 
 Struck him underneath the gasti 
 
 And demoralized his rectum : 
 
 Inflamed his duodenum, 
 
 And all the mucus lining 
 
 From his ilium to his colon ; 
 
 Caused an ulcerated colon, 
 
 And a painful caput coli, 
 
 And a much increased vermicular 
 
 Filled his ductus alimentus, 
 
 Till repeated applications 
 
 Wore the buttons off his trowers. 
 
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 XII. 
 
 Beyond the hills where Speke and Burton, 
 
 Viewed the gorgeous Tanganika, 
 
 Stanley's African attendants 
 
 Shouted " Wallah, bana yanga ! " 
 
 See the lake of Tanganika, 
 
 Smell the fish of Tanganika, 
 
 See the city of Ujiji, 
 
 And the Minyuame travelers 
 
 Livingstone, Susi, Chumah, 
 
 Waiting for the white man. 
 
 On they marched with banners streaming, 
 
 Entered fair Ujiji, — 
 
 Met the magnates of the City, 
 
 And the object of their searching, 
 
 Who saluted, Stanley, saying, 
 
 " Mr. Gobright, I presume." 
 
 The mistake was soon corrected, 
 
 And a trip round Tanganika, 
 
 And a trip to Unyanyembe, 
 
 Began the voyage of our hero 
 
 In a well preserved condition, 
 
 To London and his home.