DAVID LIVINGSTONE. 



CHAPTER I. 



EARLY YEARS. 

 A.D. 1813-1836. 



Ulva — The Livingstones — Traditions of Ulva life — The " Baughting-time " 

 — " Kirsty's Rock " — Removal of Livingstone's grandfather to Blantyre— 

 Highland blood — Neil Livingstone — His marriage to Agnes Hunter — Her 

 grandfather and father — Monument to Neil and Agnes Livingstone in 

 Hamilton Cemetery — David Livingstone, born 19th March 1813 — Boyhood — 

 At home — In school — David goes into Blantyre Mill — First earnings — Night- 

 school — His habits of reading — Natural-history expeditions — Great spiritual 

 change in his twentieth year — Dick's Philosophy of a Future State — He resolves 

 to be a missionary — Influence of occupation at Blantyre — Sympathy with 

 the people — Thomas Burke and David Hogg — Practical character of his 

 religion. 



The family of David Livingstone sprang, as he has him- 

 self recorded, from the island of Ulva, on the west 

 coast of Mull, in Argyllshire. Ulva, "the island of 

 wolves," is of the same group as Staffa, and, like it, 

 remarkable for its basaltic columns, which, according to 

 MacCulloch, are more deserving of admiration than those 

 of the Giant's Causeway, and have missed being famous 

 only from being eclipsed by the greater glory of Staffa. 

 The island belonged for many generations to the Mac- 

 quaries, a name distinguished in our home annals, as well 

 as in those of Australia. The Celtic name of the Living- 

 stones was M'Leay, which according to Dr. Livingstone's 



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