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'I Will Open a Path into the Interior (of Africa), or Perish': David Livingstone and th... - 2 views

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  • ‘I Will Open a Path into the Interior (of Africa), or Perish’: David Livingstone and the Mapping of Africa
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      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      I have annotated the lower part of this document which is about David Livingstone's third expedition in central Africa, and the Nile
  • Livingstone’s last journey in south-central Africa was from a cartographical point of view less successful than his previous travels.
    • selinah003
      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      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.
  • 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:
    • selinah003
      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      Although David Livingstone was proven wrong on his assumption of the source of the Nile, this does not however cover up the facts that he is the first European to explore many parts of Africa in that getting to learn more of the dialects of the native people.
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  • chronometers
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      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      an extraordinarily accurate timepiece.
  • sextant
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      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      A doubly reflecting navigation instrument that measures the angular distance between two visible objects.
  • Unyanyembe,
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      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      Town in Tanzania near Mwadui Airpot.
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Livingstone, Central Africa, 1870 | Livingstone Online - 2 views

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  • Ujiji
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      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      historic town located in Kigoma District in present- day Tanzania
  • Lake Tanganyika
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      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      African great lake located in central Africa on the borders of Tanzania, Congo, Zambia and Burundi
  • 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)
    • selinah003
      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      adding to the above mentioned, David Livingstone in 1870's already taken down by the disease making it impossible for him to finish his third expedition of the Nile, led to him devoting all his time into writing about his observations of central Africa.
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  • flesh-eating ulcers
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      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      present- day Burundi ulcer, is a skin disease caused by bacterium mycobacterium Ulcerans.
  • was forced to remain in his hut in Bambarre for 80 days, the last 20 of which he suffered from acute fever, nausea, and vomiting (1870e:X).
    • selinah003
      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      Of which the last 20 days resulted in his death in 1873 on the 1st of may in a village of Chitomba.
  • upended
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      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      Turned.
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      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      This map illustrates David Livingstone's annotations on the information he received from informants about the discovery of the source of the Nile, which is said that he annotated before actually visiting the region.
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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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      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      I will focus on David Livingstone's third Expedition ( journey) which can be found at the near end of the document.
  • THE THIRD JOUR
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      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      The last expedition of Dr David Livingstone starting from 1866 ending at 1873 with his death in a village of Chitambo.
  • Zambez
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      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      The longest East- flowing river in Africa and the largest following into the Indian ocean from Africa.
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  • By April he was at Mikindani ready to start on his third and last African journey,
  • menagerie
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      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      A collection of wild animals kept in captivity for exhibition.
  • which terminated in his death in May, I87
    • selinah003
      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      From my understanding of the statement, David Livingstone it was during his third expedition that he may have contracted the flesh eating ulcers under his feet which enabled him from walking and may have led to his death in 1873.
  • Bomba
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      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      present- day Mumbai.
  • Bomba
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      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      present- day Mumbai
  • Livingstone's lack of discipline and the general " go as you please" nature of his last expedition shows that his former power of handling Natives had deserted him with his rapidly failing health. He was a sick man, unable to cope with the strenuous demands of travelling in equatorial Afnca under the conditions then prevailing. From here onwards his progress was slow and tedious, and space allows a summary only of the particulars of his route.
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      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      due to the illness that he has contracted and some of the geographical difficulties that they encountered in their quest in central Africa, David Livingstone along with many of his missionary members ended up losing motivation and patience to continue the journey, thus, many of his missionary members concluded with forsaking David Livingstone, to that they ended up lying that David Livingstone had been killed by the Zulus.
  • tsets
    • selinah003
      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      these are large , biting fleas that inhabit much of tropical Africa and include all the species included in the Genus Glossina.
  • the particulars of his route. Nyas
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      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      lake Nyasa present-day lake Malawi is in Tanzania and Lagos Niassa in Mozambique.
  • and journeying rapidly back to the Coast informed the acting Consul General at Zanzibar that he had been murdered by Zulus, and that they had barely escaped with their lives
    • selinah003
      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      the comoro boys used propaganda in order to protect themselves, thus leading to the spread of lies that eventually was proven false thus, sending Stanley to search for Dr David Livingsrone who by this time was already getting weaker as each day passed by never lost hope of finding the source of the Nile thus, resulting to him making assumptions that he may have seen the upper Nile source.
  • plodding
    • selinah003
      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      moving slow.
  • which he finally sighted on April ISt, and here temporarily broke down, being too ill with fever to move, falling down in fits of insensibility and sometimes suffering from temporary paralysis of the limbs,
    • selinah003
      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      Could be said to be start of the ending of his life as an Africa explorer due to the illness. which forced him to quarantine for 80 days as a result the last 20 days led to his death in 1873 the 1st of may.
  • Tanganyika
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      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      Tanganyika is is African great lake located in central Africa on the borders of Tanzania, Congo, Zambia and Burundi.
  • Ujiji,
    • selinah003
      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      historic town located in Kigoma- Ujiji District of Kigoma Region in Tanzania.
  • It was at this juncture, almost sick unto death and in deepest depression, that Stanley reached him in October, I87I.
    • selinah003
      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      where the famous quote was derived from: Dr David Livingstone, I presume? written by David Livingstone.
  • L;vingstone was mad with the idea of finding the Nile sources and obsessed with the idea that the Lualaba, which he had first reached in January, 867, must be the Upper Nil
    • selinah003
      selinah003 on 26 Apr 23
       
      it was during this time when David Livingstone dedicated all his time into writing all about his observations and thoughts about central Africa or rather Africa as a whole, thus leading to his assumption that he may have encountered the upper Nile with which he is referring to the lake he had observed.
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September 1874 - Document - Nineteenth Century Collections Online - 5 views

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  • September 1874
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      selinah003 on 25 Apr 23
       
      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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