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Excerpt from Lives and Discoveries of Famous Travellers The island of Ulva yielding insufficient support for a numerous family, his grandfather had removed to Blantyre Works, situated on the Clyde, near Glasgow. His sons were received as clerks in the factory there. His uncles entered the army or navy, but his father remained at home, carrying on the business of a small tea-dealer, but was, as his son remarks, too conscientious to become rich. They were members of the Church of Scotland, a religious estab lishment which he speaks of as having been an incalculable blessing to the country. During the last twenty years of his life, however, he went to an Independent church in Hamilton, where he held the office of deacon. Livingstone revered his father's memory, and spoke of him as presenting to his family a continuously consistent, pious example. His mother 'he remembered as an anxious housewife, striving to make both ends meet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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