1. Dr. David Livingstone: Missionary and Explorer
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Dr. David Livingstone: Missionary and Explorer

2. David Livingstone Scottish Missionary to Africa Abolitionist
Legitimate trade would end the slave trade - Buxton
Spread Christianity
First European to explore much of Southern Central Africa

3. Livingstone’s Travels
Livingstone made an ideal explorer because he travelled light, without the retinue of soldiers that was common to European explorers and without the large group of porters. Livingstone travelled withonly a few servants and a few guns for protection. He also had a way with chiefs that made them trust him.
First expedition north from Cape Colony (now Capetown) he found what he renamed Victoria Falls
He made his way to the east coast, and then he returned to Britain, with all sorts of ideas about how to get more missionaries and europeans into the interior of the continent.
He was put in charge of an expedition to find a route to the intereior via the zambezi river, which was ultimately a failure but was a scientific success as it brought many new ifinds back to england afterwards.
Search for the source of the Nile. Started with a group of freed slaves as assistants. They began to desert him (apparently he wasn’t very nice to work with, and the going was rough). His health began declining rapidly and he relied on other travellers, sometimes slave traders, to get him to safety. He lost contact with his suppliers and had to essentially beg for food. He wound up in a village sick with dysentery, malaria and perhaps other diseases. People stopped hearing from him. He was missing, presumed dead for 6 years. Only 1 of his 44 letter dispatches made it out of the interior.

4. Henry Morton Stanley
Reporter for the NY Herald, sent to find Livingstone in 1869
Was given free reign by his employer, with any resources he needed so long as he find Livingstone
Set off from Zanzibar into the interior of Africa with a full retinue of 200.
His journey did not go well.
Reports of brutality towards his African porters.
As a side note, Henry Stanley’s life outside of relation to Dr. Livingstone is very interesting. I think you guys would like him quite a bit (aside from his abbherent racism). Go read his wikipedia page.

5. Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
Stanley found livingstone in a wretched state in 1871.