Travel - Missionary Reading Summary Livingstone, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa · As a child he would go around the countryside collecting plant samples and match them to images he saw in his medicine book and other materials . When he became a qualified doctor, he decided that, due to the opium wars that were ongoing, it was deemed inexpedient for me to proceed to China · Meant his attentions were then turned to Africa and had theological training in England and embarked for Africa in 1840 and landed in Cape Town · Claims that between 1840 and 1856 he embarked on medical and missionary labours without hurting the inhabitants p. 8 · Comments on how the people he met commented on his appearance, not realising he could understand them - rare as we only really hear European accounts - quote is p. 10 - said it enraged his Highland blood · Comments that his aims to create a settlement could be impacted by tribal conflict and even describes these conflicts and names tribes p. 10 · Comments on animal behaviour and the response of lions to one of their pride being killed p. 11 - also that they would not kill the lions to help them travel through and describes his attempt and the lion attack, also compares the lion to a terrier showing western ideas (p. 12 - 13 - even believes hit tartan jacket "wiped off" the viruses on the lion's tooth) . . Tim Jeal, Livingstone, Chapter 10 · Summaries Livingstone's movements between May 1853 - May 1856 and breaks it into three stages - Livingstone's search for a malaria-free trading centre, his attempt to open a path for traders to use to access the interior from the west African coast and a second attempt to master the second phase · He praises Livingstone at the start but becomes increasingly critical · His narration often describes Livingstone as depressed and mentioning how failures and the customs of the people furthered the depression . The first stage was in the Barotse valley and took him three hundred miles north-west up the Zambesi - this failed and he returned to Linyanti for the second phase in 1853 · The second phase travelled over 1,000 miles from Linyanti to the Atlantic port of Loanda - but this route did not satisfy . The third phase was another attempt to find an internal route which involved him retracing his steps to Linyanti and then travelling down the Zambesi for the east coast, which he reached in 1856 . He mentions the customs of a tribe who allowed a woman to take over as chief, the Makololo, who then abdicated in favour of her brother - they were friendly as he was the son in law of Moffat and that could improve their relations with the Matabele - evidence found in his writing - he said he would remain as a missionary with his wife after his expeditions which