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Dr. Livingstone, 1872. David Livingstone was born in 1817, at Blantyre, in Scotland...As a boy, he worked in a factory, but was a diligent reader, and learnt Latin at an evening school. He afterwards attended the University of Glasgow..Having resolved to become a missionary of the Christian religion to the heathen, he prepared himself for the work, not only by theological, but medical and surgical studies. He was thereupon admitted a licentiate of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, and was appointed one of the agents of the London Missionary Society. In 1840, he went to South Africa, and stayed there sixteen years. He dwelt far inland with a tribe of Bechuanas, whom he instructed in the faith, the morals, and the industrial arts of civilised Europe. He also...explored the unknown interior.., discovered Lake Ngami, traced the course of the Zambesi, and made his way northward to the eighth degree from the equator. He gained a friendly acquaintance with many tribes and nations of the African race whom no white man had before approached. He returned to England in 1857, and was received with the honours justly due to one who had laboured so much for the benefit of mankind, and had contributed so much to the extension of geographical science'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.