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David Livingstone

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Scottish missionary and explorer who discovered the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls (1813-1873)

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History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nobody around the Falls until Livingstone arrived on the scene. Desmond Tutu

After the Portuguese arrival in the area in the 16th century, the next significant Western contact was the arrival of David Livingstone along the shore of Lake Malawi in 1859. Source: Internet

David Livingstone was surprised seeing the presence of Islam among the Yao of chief Mponda who had more than twelve madrassas running Islamic lessons, writing and reading Arabic. Source: Internet

Livingstone wrote of the slave trade in the African Great Lakes region, which he visited in the mid-nineteenth century: error Livingstone's letters, books, and journals David Livingstone and Horace Waller (ed. Source: Internet

Livingstone's fruit bat, although plentiful when discovered by explorer David Livingstone in 1863, has been reduced to a population of about 120, entirely on Anjouan. Source: Internet

James Gordon Bennett Jr. sends Henry M. Stanley to find David Livingstone in Africa. Source: Internet

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