The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-27

'My reading while at work. was carried on by
placing the book on . portion Of the spinning
tence as passed at my work. thus kept up a
pretty constant study. undisturbed by the
ns oMs TO tss part OF
of completely abstracting tie mind from
sd 81 the Us - eaq ana write wsa
the dancing and songs OF savages. The toll or cot
ton spinning, to winch was promoted in my nine
loose JON ed lad. but It was well paid for; and it
enabled me to support myseii while attending
MEDICAL AND GREEK GLASSES IN GLASGOW
In winter, as also the divinity lectures of DR..
Wardlow, by working with nv hands In summer.
never received a larthng of aid from any one,
to China as medical niisslonar,. III the course oil
time, by my own ensrts MAD not some friends
tartan cnaracter. i sends neither Episco-
d dts but he Gospel Of Christ to the
heatnen.' This exactly agreed with my ideas OF
not without palig that offered myself Tor it was
not quite agreeable TO one accustomed to work his
own way to become IN measure dependent on
others and would not have Deen much put about
though my offer had been rejected.
"L00klng back now on That life OF toll cannot
but feel ibank III that it formed such a material
part II my early education; aud, were IT, possible,
| should ike TO begin lie over again in the same
lowly style and to pass through the same hardy
tralning.
respect lmbIbed Tor the humble Inhabitants OF my
native village. For morality, honesty aud intel
lRence they were, IN general good specimens Of
the Scottish poor In population OF more than
ter. In addition to the common run OF men there
were some characters Of sterling worth and
ability. WHO exerted most beneficial influence
the children and youth o. the pace by imparting
gratutOuS instruction. Much intelligent interest
was ies by the villagers IN a all public questions,
the means OF education did not render them
unsafe portion OF the population. They felt kindly
toward each other, and much respected
those of tue nelghboring gentry who, like
the late Lord Douglas, placed some
Through the Kindness OF that nooeman the poor
est among us could stroll at pleasure over the
ancient domains OF Boutwell, and other spoIs hal
lowed by the venerable associations winch
school DOCKS anu local traditions made US well
aware; anu lew OF US could view the dear memorials
OF the past without feeling that these carefully
kept Monuments were our own. The masses OF the
working people oil Scotland nave read history,
in The memories OF wallace and Bruce and al the
lave,' who are Still much revered as the former
cnampioss . o. m o the And while
capitalists and arls ocracy. we are content re-
spect our laws till We can change them, ana hate
those stupid revolutions which might sweep away
tne-hOnOred institutions, dear alike to ricn and
poor"
At the age of ten Livingstone was put into
factory as piercer. and bought Ruddimans
:.Rudlments of Latin" out OF the first weeks
wages He pursued the study Of that language
for many years afterwards at night school, be-
turn home would pore over his dictionary and
grammar till his mother snatched the book out OF
his hands and packed him Off to bed In this way
he learned to read Horace, Virgil and other au-
thors whose merits are not appreciated by the
ordinary schoolbOy.
FOR SIXTEEN YEARS,
namely, from 1S4O till mis- return to England at the
close of 1885, he labored perseverlngly as one OF
the agents of the London Missionary Society at
Kuruman, Nicholson and other stations in South
Africa During tnat time he made several expedi-
lions into the interior, and twice crossed the en-
tire continent, little south Of the rropic OF Cap.
ricorn, from the shores Of the Indian
Ocean to those OF the Atlantic. The most
important of these journeys was entered on
in January, 1853, and in May he reached
Linyanti, the principal town Of the powerful
Makolo tribe, where he was enthusiastically re-
ceived by the CHIEF. Sekeltu, and the entire popu-
lation. Departing thence IN November he pro-
ceded up the Leecambye River and Its afluent, the
Leeba, to Lake DllOlO, and thence, with consider
able difficulty and peril. across the Congo River to
Angola, at the capital OF which country, LOando,
on the western coast of AFRICA. he arrived May 81
1854, and was kindly received by the Portuguese
authorities stationed there. He left that place in
the ensuing September. reached Lnyanti in Sep.
TENDER, 1885, and thence proceeded down the Lee
cambye aud Zambes Rivers which he found to be
Identical, to Qulimane the Indian Ocean. reach
ing that place May 20, 1856. He had thus, within
period of about three years, explored q
portion OF the African Continent never
previously described by Europeans, and travelled
probably upward of 5000 miles. From Quilimane
he proceeded to England. where his wife and fam
lily had preceded him Jour years before, and he
rived there December II, 1856. Owing to his long
absence from England and his constant intercourse
with the savage tribes his mother tongue had be-
come so unfamiliar to him that at public meetings
given In his honor he found difficulty In expressing
himself with nuency. In 1857 appeared his
MISSIONARY TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SOUTH
AFRICA"
and the next year he sailed for Quilmane, where
he had been appointed Consul, and subsequently
departed on a new exploring expedition up the
Zambes River with party Of scientific men. His
explorations up to the close Of December 1851,
were mainly devoted to the locality of Lake N.Y.
ASA He assembled the lake for 200 miles, and
gave interesting details OF it's shape and extent and
OF the rivers Moving into it, lie also exerted him.
SELF at considerable peril, to cause q tribe to
abandon slave hunting, Having received steamer
in parts from England, in the spring OF 1862 he had
1t transported beyond the cataracts, put together
and launched upon the river, and IN this he
again assembled the lake, and was involved in some
OF the native wars In 1864 he returned to Eng
land and gave detailed accounts of his travels, and
described the climate and topography OF the region
on the west shore of Lake Nyassa. DR.. Livingstone
departed again late in the year 1865, with simple
equipment, furnished jointly by the British govern
ment and the Royal Geographical Society, in the
hope OF ascending nearer to the Equator, and ex-
ploring the Albert and Victoria Nyanza, and ascer-
tanning definitely their relations to each
other. to Lake Tanganyika and 70 the source
OF the Nile In November, 1868, letters
were received from him bearing various
dates, between September and December
Of the previous year. communication was re-
ceved from him by Lord Clarendon, dated from
near Lake Bangweolo, South Central Africa, July,
1868, In which he said that from what he had seen,
together with what he had learned from intelligent
natives, he thought he might safely assert that the
chief sources OF the Nile arise between ten degrees