‘I Will Open a Path into the Interior (of Africa), or Perish’: David Livingstone and the Mapping of Africa
'I Will Open a Path into the Interior (of Africa), or Perish': David Livingstone and th... - 2 views
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Livingstone’s last journey in south-central Africa was from a cartographical point of view less successful than his previous travels.
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Adding on the mentioned, i believe that the third expedition was not a successful one due to the fact that David Livingston never got to finish his quest of the Nile with which he had to discover the source of the Nile with which he mistakenly assumed that one of his observed lakes is the upper Nile. secondly, him contracting the illness which prohibited him of doing anymore expedition in Africa thus, leading him to investing majority of his time in writing about his observations.
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Livingstone was, however, the first European to reach Lakes Mweru and Bangweolu and, as always, he wanted to map his whereabouts. In one of his a last letters to Sir Thomas Maclear, he wrote:
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Two African Explorers: I--David Livingstone.pdf - 2 views
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TWO AFRICAN EXPLORERS I DAVID LIVINGSTONE
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THE THIRD JOUR
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Zambez
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Livingstone, Central Africa, 1870 | Livingstone Online - 2 views
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Ujiji
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Lake Tanganyika
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From here, Livingstone expected to carry on westward to the Lualaba and Lomami Rivers, which he hoped would prove to be two of the main branches of the Nile (Livingstone 1870h:XVIII, 1870i:XLI)
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September 1874 - Document - Nineteenth Century Collections Online - 5 views
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September 1874
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This document comprises of explorer David Livingstone's 1870 field dairy, with which he stated of by writing to Lord Stanley, explaining to him about his delay in the expedition to which he reveals about him getting sick during the quest to the Nile, but after that continued with the expedition in the central Africa from Ujiji. he further tells Lord Stanley about the hardships they encountered along their expedition to follow the central drainage of the Nile river, to which he also reveals about the illness he contracted known as the flesh eating ulcers, which according to many people is the cause of his death. David Livingstone further states about the geographical sites of the places he has visited and the mountains, fountains and rivers and their drainages he encountered in his expedition but most importantly is his idea that he has discovered the source of the Nile river. DEFINING KEY TERMS. 1. Ujiji: historic town located in Kigoma- Ujiji District of Kigoma Region in Tanzania 2. manyuema: country in Tanzania. 3. Tanganyika: was a sovereign state, comprising the mainland part of present- day Tanzania, that existed from 1961. 4. Marungu: An administrative ward in Tanga District of Tanga region in Tanzania. 5. Lichens: Are complex life form that as a symbiotic partnership of two separate organisms, a fungus and alga. 6. Lunae Montes: Mountains of the moon. 7. Lualaba: River, headstreams of the Congo river or one of the 21 provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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