Monday, March 28, 2011

Who is David Livingstone?

David Livingstone was a Scottish medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa. Born in March 18, 1813 and die in May 1, 1873, he was 61 years old by the time he die. His father, Neil Livingstone, was a traveling tea merchant in a small way, and his mother was a housewife. Before he was ten years old, he got a prize for reciting the whole entire Psalm with only five hitches. He became a explorer when he was young, and he discovered a lot about the interior of Aftica. When he was at age 27, he set sailed from Scotland to South Africa as a Christian missionary and spent the next 33 years of his live travelling and exploring the interior of Africa, and eventually becoming really famous. His most famous discoveries was reaching and naming Victoria Falls in 1855, naming after the Queen of England at that time, Queen Victoria. In 1871, a journalist named Henry Stanley found him in Africa, greeting him with the famous quote "Dr.David Livingstone, I presume?" He died two years later and after a journey of nearly a year, his body was returned to England, and buried in Westminster on 18 April 1874.



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