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Born
(1813-03-19)19 March 1813
Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK -
Died
1 May 1873(1873-05-01) (aged 60)
Chief Chitambo's Village, North-Eastern Rhodesia -
Religon
Congregationalist -
HIs soliders
The qualities and approaches which gave Livingstone an advantage as an explorer were that he usually travelled lightly, and he had an ability to reassure chiefs that he was not a threat. Other expeditions had dozens of soldiers armed with rifles and scores of hired porters carrying supplies, and were seen as military incursions or were mistaken for slave-raiding parties. -
language
Scottish / British -
Cause of Death
Malaria and internal bleeding due to dysentery -
His journey
Livingstone was one of the first Westerners to make a transcontinental journey across Africa, Luanda on the Atlantic to Quelimane on the Indian Ocean near the mouth of the Zambezi, in 1854–56.[4] Despite repeated European attempts, especially by the Portuguese, central and southern Africa had not been crossed by Europeans at that latitude owing to their susceptibility to malaria, dysentery and sleeping sickness which was prevalent in the interior and which also prevented use of draught animals (