David Livingstone was born on on March 19, 1813, the second son of Neil and Agnes Livingstone, into a very poor family. He worked at a cotton mill starting at age ten, while also in pursuit of knowledge.

...he was asked to preach the evening service at a church with a prepared sermon that he had memorized. When he was at the pulpit, he greeted the congregation, then forgot how the sermon began!

Livingstone and Ross soon arrived in Africa. They were asked to stay at a station nearer to the shore, operated by Dr. Philips. Philips said that he was aiming to dominate Dr. Moffat’s mission.

Dr. Livingstone’s final goal was not to stay at Dr. Philips’ mission at Cape Town, but to see the “real” Africa. To be able to minister to those deeper in, he continued to his original goal of making it to Dr. Moffat’s mission in Kuruman. To do so, he needed...

Dr. Livingstone’s yearning for exploration eventually led to a great expedition north of the Kalahari Desert. He had two reasons for this expedition. He wanted to see Lake Ngami (pictured above), which he would be the first European to see, and minitster to the Makololo people, which lived just north...

A freed slave named Susi, which helped him get to Ujiji, saw Stanley. When Stanley first met Livingstone, he said, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"

Livingstone waited in the trade center for five months until more supplies arrived from the coast. After the wait, he began his last journey, which was around the south shore of Lake Tanganyika. He crossed a river and headed south, but he got hopelessly lost. He got dysentery and hemorrhoids...