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       David Livingstone

      Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4057664109972

       Introduction.

       Chapter 1.

       Chapter 2.

       Chapter 3.

       Chapter 4.

       Chapter 5.

       Chapter 6.

       Chapter 7.

       Chapter 8.

       Chapter 9.

       Chapter 10.

       Chapter 11.

       Chapter 12.

       Chapter 13.

       Chapter 14.

       Chapter 15.

       Chapter 16.

       Chapter 17.

       Chapter 18.

       Chapter 19.

       Chapter 20.

       Chapter 21.

       Chapter 22.

       Chapter 23.

       Chapter 24.

       Chapter 25.

       Chapter 26.

       Chapter 27.

       Chapter 28.

       Chapter 29.

       Chapter 30.

       Chapter 31.

       Chapter 32.

       Appendix.—Latitudes and Longitudes of Positions.

       Appendix.—Book Review in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1858.

       Table of Contents

      Personal Sketch—Highland Ancestors—Family Traditions—Grandfather removes to the Lowlands—Parents—Early Labors and Efforts—Evening School—Love of Reading—Religious Impressions—Medical Education—Youthful Travels—Geology—Mental Discipline—Study in Glasgow—London Missionary Society—Native Village—Medical Diploma—Theological Studies—Departure for Africa—No Claim to Literary Accomplishments.

      My own inclination would lead me to say as little as possible about myself; but several friends, in whose judgment I have confidence, have suggested that, as the reader likes to know something about the author, a short account of his origin and early life would lend additional interest to this book. Such is my excuse for the following egotism; and, if an apology be necessary for giving a genealogy, I find it in the fact that it is not very long, and contains only one incident of which I have reason to be proud.

      Our great-grandfather fell at the battle of Culloden, fighting for the old line of kings; and our grandfather was a small farmer in Ulva, where my father was born. It is one of that cluster of the Hebrides thus alluded to by Walter Scott:

      "And Ulva dark, and Colonsay,

       And all the group of islets gay

       That guard famed Staffa round."*

       * Lord of the Isles, canto 4.

      Our grandfather was intimately acquainted with all the traditionary legends which that great writer has since made use of in the "Tales of a Grandfather" and other works. As a boy I remember listening to him with delight, for his memory was stored with a never-ending stock of stories, many of which were wonderfully like those I have since heard while sitting by the African evening fires. Our grandmother, too, used to sing Gaelic songs, some of which, as she believed, had been composed by captive islanders languishing hopelessly among the Turks.

      Grandfather could give particulars of the lives of his ancestors for six generations of the family before him; and the only point of the tradition I feel proud of is this: One of these poor hardy islanders was renowned in the district for great wisdom and prudence; and it is related that, when he was on his death-bed, he called all his children around him and said, "Now, in my lifetime, I have searched most carefully through all the traditions I could find of our family, and I never could discover that there was a dishonest man among our forefathers. If, therefore, any of you or any of your children should take to dishonest ways, it will not be because it runs in our blood: it does not belong to you. I leave this precept with you: Be honest." If, therefore, in the following pages I fall into any errors, I hope they will be dealt with as honest mistakes,


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