464 LIFE OF DA VII) LIVINGSTONE, LL.R 



This being his character, and his cousin having become jealous of his 

 superior abilities, he endeavoured to crush his proud spirit, by putting him to 

 menial occupations, and by parading his authority over him, we need not 

 wonder that, after a year at Mold, John Rowlands walked straight away into 

 the great world, with only a few pence in his pocket. He walked to Liver- 

 pool, and within a few hours engaged himself as extra hand on board a New 

 Orleans cotton ship, which carried passengers on the outward voyages. 



" Passage as an emigrant," says the biographer of Stanley, "in an emigrant 

 ship, is quite bad enough, . . . but a passage in the same ship, as an 

 extra hand, going for the first time to sea, is an experience which few who 

 have ever passed through it will recall with pleasure. . However, John Row- 

 lands had made up his mind to bear it, and the first sharp lesson tried his 

 quality. The unfortunate holder of such a position on board ship is usually 

 the slave of all the crew, and is put to all sorts of menial tasks. The value of 

 his passage has to be taken out of him in work, and he is lucky if he escapes 

 a plentiful share of kicks and curses in addition." 



Landed at New Orleans, John Rowlands parted with his shipmates, and 

 went his way in search of what fortune might bring him. He was not long in 

 learning that a cotton broker, of the name of Stank?/, was in want of a youth 

 to assist him in the counting house. He applied for the situation, and was for- 

 tunate enough to get it. Mr. Stanley was a bachelor, and was noted for an 

 eccentric and kindly disposition. Our hero filled the situation to the entire 

 satisfaction of Mr. Stanley ; and the latter having induced him to tell the 

 story of his early years, his sympathies were excited in his favour, and within 

 a very few months, at his suggestion, he took the name of his friend and 

 benefactor, and adopted the name by which he is now so well known. Further 

 intimacy so deepened the affection which the old merchant bore to his friend- 

 less assistant, that he intimated to him that he would take charge of his future 

 while he lived, and provide for him by will in the event of his death. 



Unfortunately, Mr. Stanley's death took place suddenly, before he had 

 executed a will, and the relations, who looked with no kindly eye on the 

 young man who had so narrowly escaped coming between them and what they 

 would naturally suppose to be their rightful inheritance, turned him adrift. 

 He was now about nineteen years of age, and capable of looking after himself. 

 The next two years were spent in various commercial situations. When the 

 American civil war broke out, his adventurous spirit induced him to enlist in 

 the Southern army. " During his service with the Confederates," says Mr. 

 Cadwalader Rowlands, " he took part in all the engagements fought by 

 General Johnstone up to, and including the battle of Pittsburg Landing. 

 The battle commenced on Sunday, the 6th of April, 1862. The first day's 

 fighting resulted in the defeat of the Federal forces, under General Grant, 

 but the latter being reinforced by General Buell, renewed the engagement 



