CHAPTER I. 



BLANTYRE TO THE BAKWAINS. 



Noble Names — David Livingstone — Blantyre — Home Traditions — The Factory — 

 Common School — Latin — Love of Books — Be Honest — His Father — Mother — 

 Scottish Poor — Bothwell — Conversion — Missionary Spirit — China — Medicine — 

 Astrology — Greek — Theology— Africa— Thorough Preparation — 1840 — Leaves 

 England — Goes to South Africa — Condition of Country — Cape Colony — Cape 

 Town — Algoa Bay — Port Elizabeth — Kuruman or Lattakoo — Dr. Moffat — 

 Northward — Studying Language, etc.— Selects Matabosa — Settles — Kindness 

 to the Natives — A Lion Encounter — Joins the Bakwains. 



There are names that live, and should live. Like the men 

 who make them honorable, there are names which do good, 

 carrying light and strength. There are names about which 

 systems, and histories, and ideal realms of wondrous beauty 

 are ; which incite mankind to lofty enterprise, and impart con- 

 fidence and fortitude and zeal. There are names which honor 

 a world's remembrance. It is well and creditable for the 

 world that some men are never forgotten. But of all, there 

 is no life-work brighter and truer and loftier than that in 

 the service of humanity, and the service of humanity is per- 

 fected in the dignity of Christian effort. Among the securest 

 favorites of history, the worthiest are those who lived for 

 others, and loved and labored under the impulses of the 

 gospel. 



Such a man was David Livingstone. His child-life was at 

 Blantyre, by the beautiful Clyde, above Glasgow, in Scotland. 

 He was born there in the year 1815. The humble home enter- 

 tained some proud traditions, treasured through eight generations 

 of the family. The young David listened with bounding heart 

 and growing spirit, while his grandfather told the histories and 

 legends of the olden time. Culloden was in the story. His 

 great-grandfather fell there, fighting for the old line of kings ; 

 and " Ulva Dark," the family home, had been there. Old Gaelic 

 songs trembled off the lips of his grandmother, beguiling 



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