2-704-636 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Pathfinders - David Livingstone', 1922. Portrait of Scottish missionary and African explorer David Livingstone (1813-1873), the first European to discover the Victoria Falls on the Zambezi river in central Africa. While searching for the source of the Nile in the late 1860s he became seriously ill and went missing. Although he was found, by Henry Morton Stanley in 1871, Livingstone never fully recovered from his illness and died in Bangwelulu, Zambia. Painting in the National Portrait Gallery, London. From "Bibby's Annual 1922", edited by Joseph Bibby. [J. Bibby & Sons, London, 1922]