An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
