The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-16
David Livingstone Missionary and Explorer Of darkest Africa

Identified.
-Four years after beginning his work
In Africa Livingstone sought the hand
and heart of Mary N1offat. the eldest
daughter of DIR. Moffat. and she be-
came his wife. Their marriage was a
happy one. and they became the par
ents of three sons and one daughter
Not only as missionary, but as eX-
plorer. philanthropist and philosopher,
as well. his memory lives as that OF
one of the worlds greatest men. The
difficulties and opposition which he
met and which he overcame in his work
as explorer in Africa read like fiction.
and seem like impossibilities, but as
has been written of him the word
impossible was not in Livingstone's
dictionary AS explorer he Travelled
$4,000 miles where there were no roads
and where no white man had been be-
fore; he travelled on foot or by ox-cart.
and he thus added more than million
square miles to the known part of the
world. Included in his discoveries were
five great lakes. Victoria Lake, with n
descent of 800 feet and the Zambesi
River. He discovered Lake Ngami in
the summer Of 1919. and he brought his
wife and children to its shores the
next year but their suffering an ac-
count of mosquitoes. thirst and fever
was so great that he found it neces-
sary TO send them back to England.
and this he did in 1851 expecting to
follow them one year later on a fur
lougn, but so difficult did his work be-
come and so many the hardships he
was called to bear that il was five
years before he was able to join them.
Enmity OF Slave Traders.
One of the greatest desires of Liv-
ingstone was to do his full duty in the
suppression OF the slave trade in Afri-
ca, and. naturally, his activity in this
connection made for him many enemies
among the Portuguese and other slave
traders, but this did not deter him in
MS purposes or cause him TO slacken
his efforts. and the probability is that
the efforts of no other one man have
been crowned with a larger measure
Of success
During the latter part of the year
1885 Livingstone returned to Engla nd
and remained at home until March,
! 1889 During the time that he was a.
nome he resigned his connection with
the London Missionary Society, being
moved TO take this step because he
felt that the great mission of his life
was to open 10 the world the unex-
plorel territory OF Africa and do pio-
neer work in the interior: feeling that
some Of the supporters of the society
might not approve this work being
undertaken by one of its representa-
tives, he resigned his connection with
II. but being DESTROYS that the work
OF The society should not suffer he
secured the services of his brother-in-
law. John Moffat, to become mission
AIRY to the Makoloio people in Africa
In his stead
Living stone received about his time
An offer from Lord Palmcrston: this
offer was that OF the post of consul
~ ouilimane and commander Of an en-
pediticn for exploring Eastern and
Central Africa. He readily accepted
this offer. but ne never ceased to be a
nection has said: "All his work was
regarded by him as sacred because
II was done for tho glory of God and
tho good OF humanity. The ends that
he pursued TIL the close OF his life
we're essentially the same that he had
sought hitherto-the kingdom OF God
and HIS righteousness" Notwithstand.
ms the fact that the English govern
men; was back of him and gave him
ample financial support and equipment
Cor his work of exploration. the years
included in Livingstone's second stay
N Africa-ls59 to 1S64-were tragic
years in many respects. Many disap-
pointments and bereavements came to
him. but these were faced with courage
and borne with resignation Ono
OF his greatest disappointments in
connection with his return to
Africa was that his wife was
unable to go to the interior with him
because owing to her III health he had
to leave her at Cape Town, where her
parents met her and took her to their