342 DAVID LIVINGSTONE. [chap. xvn. 



Roderick, because the matter would get into the news- 

 papers, and he did not like the public to be speaking of 

 his infirmities. On the 17th he went to Inveraray to 

 visit the Duke of Argyll. He was greatly pleased with 

 his reception, and his Journal records the most trifling 

 details. What especially charmed him was the con- 

 siderate forethought in making him feel at his ease. 

 " On Monday morning I had the honour of planting two 

 trees beside those planted by Sir John Lawrence and the 

 Marquis of Lansdowne, and by the Princess of Prussia 

 and the Crown Prince. The coach came at twelve o'clock, 

 and I finished the most delightful visit I ever made." 



Next day he went to Oban, and the day after by 

 steamer to Iona and Staffa, and thereafter to Aros, in 

 Mull. Next day Captain Greenhill took him in his yacht 

 to Ulva. 



"In 1848 the kelp and potatoes failed, and the pro- 

 prietor, a writer from Stirling, reduced the population 

 from six hundred to one hundred. None of my family 

 remain. The minister, Mr. Fraser, had made inquiries 

 some years ago, and found an old woman who remem- 

 bered my grandfather living at Uamh, or the Cave. It 

 is a sheltered spot, with basaltic rocks jutting out of the 

 ground below the cave ; the walls of the house remain, 

 and the corn and potato patches are green, but no one 

 lives there. ..." 



Returning to Oban on the 24th August, "... I 

 then came by the Crinan Canal, and at Glasgow end 

 thereof met that famous missionary, Dr. Duff, from India. 

 A fine, tall, noble-looking man, with a white beard and a 

 twitch in his muscles which shows that the Indian climate 

 has done its work on him. . . . Home to Hamilton." 



The Highlanders everywhere claimed him ; " they 

 cheered me," he writes to Sir Roderick, "as a man and a 

 brother." 



The British Association was to meet at Bath this 



