The life of David Livingstone
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- David Livingstone was born in Blantyre, south of Glasgow on the 19th March 1813. In 1823, when he was 10 years old, David began working in a local cotton mill but he studied in the evenings.
- Why do you keep reading that science jumbo-wumbo? huh? We're Christians!
- In 1836 David began studying medicine and theology in Glasgow and he decided to become a missionary doctor. David's first position as a missionary doctor was on the edge of the Kalahari Desert in the Southern Africa. He arrived there in 1841
- That's an actual law?
- Welcome to Africa my friend! Make sure you have enough money, cause our police don't like people with no money in pocket
- Why was it a good idea to impress my GF Mary by fighting a oversized cat!
- In 1844, whilst living and working with the people in the area. David was attacked by a lion. The lion was killed but David suffered injuries to his shoulder and arm. In 1845 he married Mary Moffat, the daughter of another missionary.
- Hold deit! Hooold deit!
- David!
- David Livingstone believed that he should try to travel further inland and introduce new people in Africa to Christianity. He also wanted to free people from slavery, as many Africans were being captured and sold as slaves. In 1849 and 1851, he travelled across the Kalahari Desert and on his second trip he saw the upper Zambezi River.
- 'Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir to god.'
- In 1852, David began an expedition to find a route from the upper Zambezi to the coast. This expedition helped people understand more about Central and Southern Africa. In 1855, Livingstone found a huge waterfall which he named Victoria Falls after Queen Victoria. Local people called it Mosi-o-Tunga which meant the smoke that thunders. He reached the mouth of the Zambezi river on the Indian Ocean in May 1856. He was the first European to cross the width of Southern Africa.
- The queen's gonna have his head for what he just said
- YAS MAN! I'm the first Scotsman to go to South Africa! Boo england!
- In 1856 David returned to Britain where he was now thought of as a great explorer and hero. He did many talks around the country and in 1857 he published a book about his African adventures. Livingstone left for Africa again in 1858. For the next five years he carried on exploring eastern and central Africa for the British Government. Mary, his wife, died of malaria in 1862 and in 1864 he was ordered to come home by the government.
- O Mary! I should not have left you!
- David, you barely even talked to her when you return in 1856.
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