CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



EARLY YEARS. 

 a.d. 1813-1836. 



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Ulva — The Livingstones — Traditions of Ulva life — The "Baugh ting-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, .......... 1 



CHAPTER II. 



MISSIONARY PREPARATION. 



A.D. 1836-1840. 



His desire to be a missionary to China — Medical missions — He studies at 

 Glasgow — Classmates and teachers — He applies to London Missionary 

 Society— His ideas of mission-work — He is accepted provisionally — He 

 goes to London — to Ongar — Reminiscences by Rev. Joseph Moore — by 

 Mrs. Gilbert — by Rev. Isaac Taylor — Nearly rejected by the Directors — 

 Returns to Ongar — to London — Letter to his sister — Reminiscences by 

 Dr. Risdon Bennett — Promise to Professor Owen — Impression of his 

 character on his friends and fellow-students — Rev. R. Moffat in England 

 — Livingstone interested — Could not be sent to China — Is appointed to 

 Africa — Providential links in his history — Illness — Last visits to his 

 home — Receives Medical diploma — Parts from his family, . . .18 



