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Biography : David Livingstone and Henry Stanley
David Livingstone, a Scottish missionary, became the best-known European explorer of Africa. From 1841 to 1856, he travelled across southern and southwest Africa, and reached Luanda in present-day Angola. Livingstone then journeyed eastward and traced the Zambezi River across the continent. From 1858 to 1863, he explored southeast Africa, reaching Lake Nyasa in Tanzania. Livingstone travelled through east central Africa from 1866 until his death in 1873.
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David Livingstone was born at Blantyre,eight miles south of Glasgow,on 19 March 1813. He was born in a home in a tenement building called Shuttle Row ,which was built to house the workers in the cotton spinning mill on the banks of the River Clyde.
Earlier Life
At the age of ten , like other children of the village , he was put to work in the mills from six in the morning and did not release him till about eight at night. Then,with other children employed in the mills, he had to attend night school. Most were so tired they could do little but sleep, but David studied hard and would continue with his lessons far into the night.Every spare moment, in the factory or out,he studied books and nature.
He was twenty-three years of age before he was able to begin medical classes at the Anderson college in Glasgow,where he studied in winter-returning to the mills in summer. When he was sufficientily far advanced in his studies of medicine and theology, he applied to the London Missionary Society for service in China and was called to London for an interview.Having been accepted, he completed his studies with some difficulty.
He married in 1845 and eventually settles in Mabotsa , Africa. It was here that Livingstone was attacked by a lion which crunched his shoulder so that he never regained full use of his left arm. Later, the Livingstones moved forty miles further on to Chonuane, into the country of the Bakwains, and again founded a station.
Stanley
Henry Morton Stanley was born in Denbigh, Wales, and was baptized John Rowlands. He spent most of his youth in a workhouse for orphans. At the age of 17, he sailed as a cabin boy on a ship to New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. There Henry Hope Stanley, a cotton dealer, adopted him. The young Stanley fought in the American Civil War (1861-1865). In 1865, Stanley became a newspaper reporter. During the late 1860's, he covered Indian wars in the American West and a British military campaign in Ethiopia. But his best-known assignment was to find Livingstone.
| In 1869, Henry Morton Stanley, a reporter for the New York Herald, went to Africa to find Livingstone, who had not been heard from in several years. The story of how Stanley found Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika in 1871 captured the imagination of people around the world.
Continue................Their Voyages
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