DAVID LIVINGSTON

D. Livingston was a Scottish missionary, doctor and explorer. His travels covered one-third of Africa, from the Cape to near the Equator and from the Atlantic to the Indic Ocean.

At the age of ten the boy commenced work in a cotton factory. It was the father's custom to lock the door at dusk. One evening David was a little late in returning to the house. Knowing it was of no use to knock on the door, he calmly sat down on the doorstep to spend the night.

He lost contact with the outside world for six years and was ill for most of the last four years of his life.

He died the 1st of may 1873 at the age of 60. The cause of his dead was malaria and dysentery.