WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -David Livingstone, (born March 19, 1813, Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland-died May 1, 1873, Chitambo [now in Zambia]), Scottish missionary and explorer who exercised a formative influence on Western attitudes toward Africa.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1869, Henry Morton Stanley, the special correspondent for the New York Herald, was commissioned by the paper to go find Livingstone. In November 1871, Stanley found the doctor in Ujiji, a village on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania.

Detailed explanation-3: -Africa was Plan B David Livingstone, the Scottish explorer, abolitionist and physician who is famous for being the first European to discover Victoria Falls, initially hoped to go to China as a missionary.

Detailed explanation-4: -Explorer and missionary David Livingstone was the first European to cross the continent from west to east and to discover the Zambesi River, the Victoria Falls and several major central African lakes. His publications about these explorations and the slave trade brought great fame.

Detailed explanation-5: -The London Missionary Society sent David Livingstone to South Africa in 1840, where he became one of the first Europeans to traverse the continent.