26 DAVID LIVINGSTONE. [chap. n. 



speak of them as Jonathan and David. Mr. Moore has 

 kindly furnished us with his recollections of Livingstone 

 at this time :— 



"I met with Livingstone first in September 1838, at 57 Alders- 

 gate Street, London. On the same day we had received a letter from 

 the Secretary informing us severally that our applications had been 

 received, and that we must appear in London to be examined by the 

 Mission Board there. On the same day, he from Scotland, and I 

 from the south of England, arrived in town. On that night, we 

 simply accosted each other, as those who meet at a lodging-house 

 might do. After breakfast on the following day, we fell into con- 

 versation, and finding that the same object had brought us to the 

 metropolis, and that the same trial awaited us, naturally enough we 

 were drawn to each other. Every day, as we had not been in town 

 before, we visited places of renown in the great city, and had many a 

 chat about our prospects. 



" On Sunday in the morning, we heard Dr. Leifchild, who was 

 then in his prime, and in the evening Mr. Sherman, who preached 

 with all his accustomed persuasiveness and mellifluousness. In the 

 afternoon we worshipped at St. Paul's, and heard Prebendary Dale. 



" On Monday we passed our first examination. On Tuesday we 

 went to Westminster Abbey. Who that had seen those two young 

 men passing from monument to monument could have divined that 

 one of them would one day be buried with a nation's — rather with 

 the civilised world's — lament, in that sacred shrine % The wildest 

 fancy could not have pictured that such an honour awaited David 

 Livingstone. I grew daily more attached to him. If I were asked 

 why, I should be rather at a loss to reply. There was truly an in- 

 describable charm about him, which, with all his rather ungainly ways, 

 and by no means winning face, attracted almost every one, and which 

 helped him so much in his after-wanderings in Africa. 



" He won those who came near him by a kind of spell. There 

 happened to be in the boarding-house at that time a young M.D., a 

 saddler from Hants, and a bookseller from Scotland. To this hour 

 they all speak of him in rapturous terms. 



" After passing two examinations, we were both so far accepted by 

 the Society that we were sent to the Eev. Richard Cecil, who resided at 

 Chipping Ongar in Essex. Most missionary students were sent to 

 him for three months' probation, and if a favourable opinion was sent 

 to the Board of Directors, they went to one of the Independent Col- 

 leges. The students did not for the most part live with Mr. Cecil, but 

 took lodgings in the town, and went to his house for meals and 

 instruction in classics and theology. Livingstone and I lodged 

 together. We read Latin and Greek, and began Hebrew together. 

 Every day we took walks, and visited all the spots of interest in the 



