Wandering Through Africa (1857)
Cape Town in South Africa was a popular city for the Dutch and British to live and trade in the 1850’s. A Scottish Missionary named David Livingstone arrived in Cape Town and began his travels northward, into the center of Africa. He was in search of rivers and other trade routes that would assist Europeans with trade. Livingstone hoped that these routes would promote the trade of ivory, salt, and other goods, rather than slaves. The more that Livingstone travelled through Africa, the more he began to despise the slave trade.
Livingstone was attacked by a lion in the town of Mabotsa. He survived the attack but his arm was severely injured. In 1858, the government of Great Britain gave Livingstone the official job of finding trade routes in Africa under the title of consul. 15 years passed when Henry Morton Stanley, a journalist for the New York Times went to Africa in search of the missing explorer. Stanley found Livingstone and offered to take home to England, but Livingstone refused. Livingstone passed away two years later, his heart buried under an African tree and his body sent back to England.
