uator, and occupying the whole breadth of
the continent from east to west. Lieutenant Burton, famous for his
expedition to Mecca and Medina, set out from Zanzibar a few months
since, with the design of traversing this very region. If he succeeds
in his purpose his explorations will fill up the void between those of
Barth and Livingstone.

Dr. Livingstone, with whose travels we are at present specially
concerned, is no ordinary man. The son of a Presbyterian deacon and
small trader in Glasgow; set to work in a cotton factory at ten years
old; buying a Latin grammar with his first earnings; working from six in
the morning till eight at night, then attending evening-school till
ten, and pursuing his studies till midnight; at sixteen a fair classical
scholar, with no inconsiderable reading in books of science and travels,
gained, sentence by sentence, with the book open before him on his
spinning-jenny; botanizing and geologizing on holidays and at spare
hours; poring over books of astrology till he was startled by inward
suggestions to sell his soul to the Evil One as the price of the
mysterious knowledge of the stars; soundly flogged by the good deacon
his father by way of imparting to him a liking for Boston's "Fourfold
State" and Wilberforce's "Practical Christianity"; then convinced by the
writings of the worthy Thomas Dick that there was no hostility between
Science and Religion, embracing with heart and mind the doctrines of
evangelical Christianity, and resolving to devote his life to their
extension among the heathen--such are the leading features of the early
life of David Livingstone.

He would equip himself for the warfare and afterward fight with the
powers of darkness at his own cost. So at the age of nineteen--a slim,
loose-jointed lad--he commenced the study of medicine and Greek, and
afterward of theology, in the University of Glasgow, attending lectures
in the winter, paying his expenses by working as a cotton-spinner during
the summer, without receiving a farthing of aid from any one.

His purpose was to go to China as a medical missionary, and he would
have accomplished his object solely by his own efforts had not some
friends advised him to join the London Missionary Society. He offered
himself, with a half hope that his application would be rejected, for it
was not quite agreeable to one accustomed to work his own way to become
dependent in a measure upon others.

By the time when his medical and t