David Livingstone

David Livingstone (March 19, 1813 – May 1, 1873) was a Scottish missionary and explorer of the Victorian era, now best remembered because of his meeting with Henry Morton Stanley which gave rise to the popular quotation, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume."

Illness and death

He was taken ill, and completely lost contact with the outside world for six years. Only one of his 44 later dispatches made it to Zanzibar. Stanley, who had been sent in a publicity stunt to find him by the New York Herald newspaper in 1869 found Livingstone in the town of Ujiji, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in 1871. Stanley joined Livingstone, and together they continued exploring the north end of the Tanganyika (the other constituent of the present Tanzania), until Stanley left the next year.

Related Topics:
Stanley - 1869 - Ujiji - Tanganyika - 1871 - Tanzania

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Despite Stanley's urgings, Livingstone was determined not to leave Africa until his mission was complete, and he died there, in Zambia, in 1873 from malaria and internal bleeding caused by bowel obstruction. His body, carried over a thousand miles by his loyal attendants Chuma and Susi, was returned to Britain for burial in Westminster Abbey.

Related Topics:
Zambia - 1873 - Malaria - Bowel obstruction - Westminster Abbey

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