32/142 It was hardly possible for us to estimate how much we had benefited by those who had opened up the country for us. We were few in numbers and could not appreciate the work of the explorer; but generations yet unborn would bless the names of those men who had carried it out. He thought that it was doing only a just tribute to associate the name of Mr.John Chambers with this toast, because it might not be known to all present that Mr.Chambers, with his late brother James and Mr.W.Finke, enabled Mr.Stuart to accomplish the journeys that he made throughout the continent. (Cheers.) It was their capital and his great skill, for in the face of so many explorers he was not ashamed to say that Mr.McDouall Stuart was the greatest explorer that ever lived. |