ABSTRACT
Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) was born out of wedlock in Denbigh, Wales, and grew up under the name of John Rowlands, at first mostly in the care of his grandfather and then in the workhouse at St. Asaph. Stanley seems genuinely to have been deeply affected by the older man and a kind of father-son relationship appears to have developed between them. Stanley's accomplishment excited the British public and riled its establishment, whose class snobbery combined with a crude anti-Americanism to vilify him. A long march in a west-by-north direction, lasting six hours, through a forest where the sable antelope was seen, and which was otherwise prolific with game, brought people to a stream which ran by the base of a lofty conical hill, on whose slopes flourished quite a forest of feathery bamboo.
