viii CONTENTS. 



CHAPTEE III. 



FIRST TWO YEARS IN AFRICA. 

 a.d. 1841-1843. 



PAOE 



His ordination — Voyage out — At Rio de Janeiro — At the Cape — He proceeds 

 to Kuruman — Letters — Journey of 700 miles to Bechuana country — Selec- 

 tion of site for new station — Second excursion to Bechuana country — Letter 

 to his sister — Influence with chiefs — Bubi — Construction of a water-dam 

 — Sekomi — Woman seized by a lion — The Bakaa — Sebehwe — Letter to 

 Dr. Risdon Bennett — Detention at Kuruman — He visits Sebehwe's village 

 — Bakhatlas — Sechele, chief of Bakwains — Livingstone translates hymns 

 — Travels 400 miles on oxback — Returns to Kuruman — Is authorised to 

 form new station — Receives contributions for native missionary — Letters 

 to Directors on their Mission policy — He goes to new station — Fellow- 

 travellers — Purchase of site — Letter to Dr. Bennett — Desiccation of 

 South Africa — Death of a servant, Sehamy — Letter to his parents, . .37 



CHAPTER IV. 



FIRST TWO STATIONS MABOTSA AND CIIONUANE. 



a.d. 1843-1847. 



Description of Mabotsa — A favourite hymn — General reading — Mabotsa 

 infested with lions — Livingstone's encounter — The native deacon who 

 saved him — His Sunday-school — Marriage to Mary Moffat — Work at 

 Mabotsa — Proposed institution for training native agents — Letter to his 

 mother — Trouble at Mabotsa — Noble sacrifice of Livingstone — Goes to 

 Sechele and the Bakwains — New station at Chonuane — Interest shown 

 by Sechele — Journeys eastward — The Boers and the Transvaal — Their 

 occupation of the country, and treatment of the natives — Work among 

 the Bakwains — Livingstone's desire to move on — Theological conflict at 

 home — His view of it — His scientific labours and miscellaneous employ- 

 ments, ............. 65 



CHAPTER V. 



THIRD STATION — KOLOBENG. 



A.D. 1847-1852. 



Want of rain at Chonuane — Removal to Kolobeng — House-building and 

 public works — Hopeful prospects — Letters to Mr. Watt, his sister, and 

 Dr. Bennett — The church at Kolobeng — Pure communion — Conversion of 

 Sechele — Letter from his brother Charles— His history — Livingstone's 



