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DAVID LIVINGSTONE (SECOND TRIP (1851: Reached Seschele on the Zambezi…
DAVID LIVINGSTONE
SECOND TRIP
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Believed the Zambezi river could open up the interior of Africa to trade, Christianity and the abolition of slavery
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L reached the Atlantic, by which time he had malaria
After 4 months of recuperation, Liv. set out east, aiming for the Indian Ocean Coast
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received honorary degrees; did a lecture tour of Britain; published a book on his travels; met Queen Victoria
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FOURTH TRIP
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Based himself at Ujiji, where he was finally found by Henry Morton Stanley on 10 Nov 1871
Liv. was seriously ill, at one stage his porters deserted and returned to Zanzibar and reported that he had died
The two men explored Lake Tanganyika together, looking for the source of the Nile before Stanley left in 1872
An overland trip that started in zanzibar and explored lakes Nyasa, Mweru, Bangweulu and Tanganyika
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FIRST TRIP(Kuurman)
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Liv. disillusioned by Kuurman, he soon started travelling North to find a place to start a new mission station
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L decided he would explore this river system as an explorer not as a missionary #
THIRD TRIP
The geographical/logical info. collected was valuble but the mission was a failure
liv. returned in disgrace
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Problems: Liv. had not explored the whole of the Zambezi and so the ship (The Ma Robert) was stopped by the Quebrabasa Gorge
Liv. was given a steamboat and a large staff including: a geologist, artist and engineer (And Mary)
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Liv. was given funding from British government and RGS (Royal Geographical Society) for another Zambezi expedition
UNIVERSITY
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Personality: a brusque loner. Almost asked to leave LMS
These traits were good for being a missionary though he did 'knock heads' with people #
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China, West Indies were his options for his posting but eventually he was posted to Southern Africa after meeting w/ Robert Moffat #
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CHILD/EARLY YEARS
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Livingstone lived in a small flat with a poor religious family (father was a door-to-door tea seller)
Born in Blantyre, Scotland, 19 March 1813