CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Early Civilization in Northern Africa — The Limit of the Ancient Civiliza- 

 tion — Theatre of Mythology — Saracen Conquest — Settlement of Soudan — 

 Mohammedan Failure — The Fifteenth Century — Gilianez Passed Cape Bo- 

 jador — Portuguese Efforts on the West Coast — Roman Catholicism — The 

 Failure — England and France — Richard Jobson — Mungo Park — Denham 

 and Clapperton — Richard Lander Dispels the Niger Mystery — Kingdoms 

 on the West — Dahomey, Ashantee, etc. — The Cape Settlement — Vasco de 

 Gama — The Settlement of Natal by the English — Lieutenant Christopher 

 — Abyssinia and the Nile — Bruce and Dr. Beke — The Nile Mystery as it 

 Stands — The Unknown — Livingstone 23 



CHAPTER I. 



BLANTYBE TO THE BAKWAINS. 



Noble Names — David Livingstone — Blantyre — Home Traditions — The Fac- 

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

 Mother — Scottish Poor — Both well — Conversion — Missionary Spirit — China 

 — Medicine — Astrology — Greek — Theology — Africa — Thorough Prepara- 

 tion — 1840 — Leaves England — Goes to South Africa — Condition of Country — 

 Cape Colony — Cape Town — Algoa Bay — Port Elizabeth — Kuruman or Lat- 

 takoo — Dr. Moffat — Northward — Studying Language, etc. — Selects Mata- 

 bosa — Settles — Kindness to the Natives — A Lion Encounter — Joins the 

 Bakwains 45 



CHAPTER II. 

 1843—1850. 



The Bechuanas — The Bakwains — Sechele — His Conversion — His Difficulties 

 — The Government — Baptism of Sechele — Cross and Crown — Difficulties of 

 the Work — Belief in Rain-Making — Drought — Noble Conduct — The Hopo 

 — Kindness to Livingstone — Livingstone's Spirit — The Boers — Slavery — 

 Antagonistic Principles — Boers Hate Livingstone — Sechele's Resistance — 

 Livingstone Accused — His Effects Destroyed — Going Northward — Desire 

 to find the Lake — Desire to see Sebituane — Sekomi — The Desert — Bush- 

 men — Bakalahari — Water Sucking — Across the Desert — Difficulties — Salt 

 Pans — The Zouga — Quakers of Africa — Lake Ngami Discovered — The 

 Lake — Sebituane — Guides Refused — Sketch of the Zouga — Elephants — 



Trees — Fish — Bayieye — Kolobeng Again — Home-life in Kolobeng 58 



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