David Livingstone

He found the strength in Westminster Abbey.

David Livingstone's tomb is still there.

Scott entered quietly, found the tomb, and knelt in front of it to pray.

The inscription reads, Other sheep I have which are not of this fold.

Where's Hudson? He's down in the youth, is he? Where's his namesake? He raised up Hudson Taylor for the missionary to China.

David Livingstone went to Africa.

Mary Schleser also.

British and foreign Bible societies were formed.

The Wife.

Dr. Livingstone, in his travels in Africa, came one night to the house of Mozinqua, a friendly man with a pleasant-looking wife and a fine family of children, very black but calmly.

Perhaps their hospitable, kind ways made them look handsome to the lonely missionary so far from home and friends.

He was caught in a heavy rain, but he and his companions received a warm welcome and plenty of food from this friendly couple till they were able to proceed.

They had a large garden cultivated by the wife, with yams, sweet potatoes, and other vegetables growing in it, and all surrounded by a fine hedge of the banyan tree.

Under some larger trees in the middle of the yard stood the huts in which they lived, and no doubt the fine-looking little children played many happy days under their mother's care in the shade.

When Dr. Livingstone took his leave of this interesting family, his wife asked him to bring her some cloth from the white man's country.

When he returned after a long journey, he was surprised to find the pleasant home silent and deserted, the garden given up to wild weeds and the huts in ruins, and no sign of life in the spot where he last saw a large family of frolicking children.

That's why it still exists in sudan maritime niger and so forth and eric metaxas who's a friend of ours um he has uh works with christian solidarity international that collects money to rescue christians out of slavery today and um then you have um the middle ages there were whole catholic orders that would ransom um christians out of slavery called the trinitarians and and then in the 1600s muslim pirates raided ireland and carried away a whole village uh called the uh stolen village of baltimore ireland and then they enslaved africans and tens of millions of africans and fortunately to castrate the men make immunix and sell the women in the sex trafficking And it kept going on.

Even David Livingston, the missionary to the Congo, writes about seeing the slaves being shackled together and marched toward the coast.

And Turkey had slaves that they would make into an army called Janissaries.

And in Egypt, they called them Mamluks.

what therefore we mean by the history of geographical discovery is the gradual bringing to the knowledge of the nations of civilization surrounding the mediterranean sea the vast tracts of land extending in all directions from it there are mainly two divisions of this history the discovery of the old world and that of the new including australia under the latter term though we speak of geographical discovery it is really the discovery of new tribes of men that we are thinking of it is only quite recently that men have sought for knowledge about lands apart from the men who inhabit them one might almost say that the history of geographical discovery properly so called begins with captain cook the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity but before his time men wanted to know one another for two chief reasons they wanted to conquer or they wanted to trade or perhaps we could reduce the motives to one they wanted to conquer because they wanted to trade in our own day we have seen a remarkable mixture of all three motives resulting in the european partition of africa perhaps the most remarkable event of the latter end of the nineteenth century.

Speak and Burton, Livingstone and Stanley, investigated the interior from love of adventure and of knowledge.

Then came the great chartered trading companies, and, finally, the governments to which these belong have assumed responsibility for the territories thus made known to the civilized world.

within forty years the map of africa which was practically a blank in the interior and as will be shown was better known in sixteen eighty than in eighteen fifty has been filled up almost completely by researches due to motives of conquest of trade or of scientific curiosity in the earlier stages then the history of geographical discovery is mainly a history of conquest and what we shall have to do will be to give a short history of the ancient world from the point of view of how that world became known.

African exploration of the interior begins with the search for the sources of the Nile and has been mainly concluded by the determination of the course of the three other great rivers, the Niger, the Zambezi, and the Congo.

It is remarkable that all four rivers have had their course determined by persons of British nationality.

The names of Bruce and Grant will always be associated with the Nile, that of Mungo Park with the Niger, Dr. Livingstone with the Zambezi, and Mr. Stanley with the Congo.

It is not inappropriate that, except in the case of the Congo, England should control the course of the rivers which her sons first made accessible to civilization.