The gapthrough which I had seen this mountain was in the eastern or near range, of very regular form, extending, with the exception of this gap, for a distance of five and twenty miles without a break. The crest of the range was of so regular a form that no point could be selected as a peak, I therefore gave the whole the name of 'Livingston's Range;"
DAVID LIVINGSTONE (1813 - 1873)
Only a few years ago any school boy or girl would have been able to tell you something about this famous missionary and African explorer.
He arrived in Africa as a medical missionary in 1841. In 1851 he discovered the Zambezi River and four years later the famous Victoria Falls. He returned to London where he published material related to his explorations.
At the insistence of the Royal Geographical Society he returned to Africa where he discovered the source of the Nile. His explorations continued and when H. M. Stanley of the New York Herald was sent to look for him he was discovered at Ujiji. Two years later in 1873 he died in a small village. Native followers preserved his body and carried it to the coast where it was sent to England and buried in Westminster Abbey.
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